How to Use legal in a Sentence

legal

adjective

• What you did was not legal.
• Do you know your legal rights?
• She has a lot of legal problems.
• The referee said it was a legal play.
• The amount of alcohol in his blood exceeded the legal limit.
• So there is not a legal fix here.
  — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2026
• And those were just the legal bets.
  — Sequoia Carrillo, NPR, 5 Apr. 2026
• The check was legal but edgy enough to be addressed.
  — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 28 Feb. 2026
• All this labor—all of it legal—paid off.
  — Kapil Komireddi, New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2026
• Some of it has to do with betting on games now legal in many states.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
• That means any new map agreed on this month could face legal challenges.
  — Jeffrey Schweers, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 Apr. 2026
• Some have backed down from their claims in the face of threats of legal action.
  — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2021
• As of now, there are no plans to take legal action to stop it, sources say.
  — Dan Rys, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2021
• But Ashley's legal woes may not be over.
  — Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026
• The new rule also opens the door for a fresh round of legal challenges.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2023
• The bank expressed its doubts the source of the money was legal.
  — Logan Smith, CBS News, 29 Mar. 2026
• There are likely to be more legal battles ahead.
  — ABC News, 21 Feb. 2026
• Because even a secret test track has rules on what's street-legal.
  — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 19 July 2019
• With lots of cash on hand, Google is digging in for a long legal fight.
  — The Economist, 22 Oct. 2020
• That’s good news for an outlaw distiller who’d like to be legal one day.
  — Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
• Among cost-saving moves, the district cut down on legal fees.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
• The legal fight has just been so, so difficult.
  — Marie Saavedra, CBS News, 9 Jan. 2026
• To be honest with you, a lot of it with the rule changes is not legal anymore.
  — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 14 May 2020
• Americans have a new beef – a legal one, that is.
  — Medora Lee, USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
• The state, meanwhile, insists the plan is both legal and fair.
  — Elissa Robinson, Freep.com, 9 Oct. 2025
• Keefe also has received his share of legal threats and has learned to brush them off.
  — Julian Sancton, HollywoodReporter, 11 Apr. 2026
• Daniel Stern's brief legal troubles are over.
  — Wesley Stenzel, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Feb. 2026
• Sometimes the legal fees rack up higher than the amount of your cash that was seized.
  — Sacbee.com, 2 Oct. 2025
• Congress should ensure that the same is true of cannabis in states where the drug is legal.
  — Ilya Shapiro, National Review, 10 July 2019
• Gill was widely viewed as a thoughtful and fair judge with a quick legal mind and dry wit.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2025