How to Use litigate in a Sentence

litigate

verb

• They agree to litigate all disputes in this court.
• The company's unwillingness to make a deal increased her desire to litigate.
• This thing went up to court and it got litigated for a long time.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 28 June 2023
• Laws in at least two states are on hold as they’re litigated.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 14 May 2023
• Don’t try to show him stuff or re-litigate his refusal to look.
  — Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• All these things need to be re-litigated in a world in which there are no givens.
  — Sara Delgado, Teen Vogue, 9 July 2019
• Bell’s case is the first he’s seen litigated.
  — Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 25 Sep. 2025
• Is this an issue that just gets litigated again and again and again?
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
• The city has retained a private law firm to litigate the case.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2020
• But very few of these stories have been litigated in court.
  — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
• The moment set off a chain of events that are still being litigated in court.
  — Eric Levenson and Gloria Pazmino, CNN Money, 10 Apr. 2025
• Every inch of her empire has been fought for and litigated over.
  — Winston Cho, HollywoodReporter, 2 July 2026
• The case is still being litigated in court.
  — Laura Romero, ABC News, 13 May 2026
• That status allows the lawyers to litigate on behalf of the state.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al, 13 Apr. 2023
• This is what will be litigated during the course of this campaign.
  — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 30 July 2025
• But Sutton takes this moment to, once again, re-litigate the point.
  — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 June 2021
• In fact, the club could stay open for months while the case is litigated, Shurtleff said.
  — Kolbie Peterson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 21 Aug. 2023
• They are known to freely litigate any challenge to their sovereignty over most non pari-mutuel gambling in the state.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 15 Jan. 2026
• Slaughter sued and asked to stay in her job while lower courts litigated the issue.
  — Andrew Rice The Center Square, Arkansas Online, 24 May 2026
• That book was part of an effort to publicly litigate what is taught in the classroom and who is teaching it.
  — Nicole Hemmer, CNN, 20 May 2021
• In any class action, the parties first litigate over whether the case may proceed as a class action.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 10 June 2020
• The issue of the deed for the fire station will then be litigated, Mecham said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2019
• The city has no intention of litigating this case in the media.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 18 Sep. 2024
• In most instances, the two parties will litigate for a while and then settle, Ealey said.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 8 Jan. 2020
• The decision puts a hold on the law while it's being litigated.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 19 Mar. 2024
• But the state has refused and instead continued to litigate the case.
  — Nina Totenberg, NPR, 2 June 2026
• This is not to re-litigate Gurianov’s play, which tends to resemble an inkblot test.
  — Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2022
• Many of these efforts have ended up being litigated in court.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 20 Apr. 2026
• The case is still being litigated.
  — ABC News, 6 May 2026
• The case is still being litigated.
  — Fatima Hussein, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2026