How to Use legal holiday in a Sentence

legal holiday

noun

• Each state gets to determine its legal holidays, the report states.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2024
• When a due date falls on a weekend or legal holiday, employers get until the next business day.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• Oregon becomes the first state to make Labor Day a legal holiday.
  — CNN, 20 Aug. 2021
• Families took advantage of the rare non-religious legal holiday to vote and then shop.
  — Michele Chabin and Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2020
• Alabama is the last state to have a legal holiday set aside solely to commemorate the birth of Davis.
  — Leada Gore | [email protected], al.com, 3 June 2019
• But if these dates fall on a Saturday, Sunday or legal holiday, the deadline moves to the next business day.
  — Tom Herman, WSJ, 11 Dec. 2017
• Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Oc Register, 31 Aug. 2025
• That bill would also allow the sale if the check isn’t completed within three days, excluding weekends and legal holidays.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• West Virginia observe Election Day as a legal holiday with most state offices closed.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 6 Nov. 2022
• Louisiana is the only state where Mardi Gras is a legal holiday.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 10 Feb. 2026
• Adults or minors can be detained for no longer than 72 hours, though that time frame can vary if the examination includes a weekend or legal holiday.
  — Carol Marbin Miller, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
• Confederate Memorial Day is still a legal holiday in five states.
  — Kyle Wood, sun-sentinel.com, 9 Mar. 2021
• City of Chicago offices, for instance, will be closed, but Delaware doesn’t recognize this as a legal holiday.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 11 Oct. 2021
• Under the tax law, legal holidays in the District of Columbia affect the filing deadline across the nation.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• Jackson also has filed bills that would make June 19th – Juneteenth – a state legal holiday and make election days state holidays.
  — Vivian Jones, Washington Examiner, 12 Jan. 2021
• Wisconsin state statutes classify Veterans Day as a legal holiday.
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 11 Nov. 2025
• Flag Day is not considered to be a federal holiday, but Pennsylvania is the only state that recognizes it as a legal holiday.
  — Deanna Watson, USA TODAY, 14 June 2021
• Congress quickly passed an act making Labor Day a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
• But the prison released her before the weekend, following a standard federal prison policy for all inmates whose release date falls on a Saturday, Sunday or a legal holiday.
  — Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 5 Sep. 2019
• President Grant Day doesn’t need to be an official or legal holiday where Illinois state employees get the day off, like Lincoln’s Birthday.
  — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 11 Feb. 2026
• The only exception is if the registration deadline falls on a Sunday or legal holiday, according to the Secretary of State website.
  — Mariyam Muhammad, Cincinnati Enquirer, 4 Nov. 2025
• With the encouragement of his constituents, Crighton joined Williams to cosponsor the amendment making Juneteenth a legal holiday in Massachusetts.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 June 2021
• And only in 1879 was his birthday formally made into a legal holiday for federal employees in the District of Columbia.
  — Ben Finley, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2024
• Under state law, a legal holiday that falls on a Saturday is still observed on Saturday, while Sunday holidays are observed the following Monday.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2021
• Senate Bill 350 called for marking Juneteenth Independence Day as a legal holiday to commemorate the day when slaves finally learned that they had been freed.
  — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 May 2022
• California, where his farm workers organizing movement began, made his birthday a legal holiday in 2000, and President Barack Obama later established it as a federal commemorative holiday.
  — Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune, 6 May 2026
• After 23 states had adopted the holiday by 1894, Congress followed suit at the federal level on June 28, 1894, and passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday.
  — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Aug. 2025
• Ten states recognize Columbus Day as an unpaid public holiday, legal holiday or day of recognition, according to Pew Research Center, and these include Washington, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Florida, North Carolina, Michigan and New Hampshire.
  — Jasmine Laws, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025