How to Use overrule in a Sentence

overrule

verb

• The judge overruled the objection.
• His conviction was overruled by the supreme court.
• Five years ago, the city tried to ban them but was overruled by the state.
  — Greg Allen, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
• Five years ago, the city tried to ban them but was overruled by the state.
  — Greg Allen, NPR, 5 Mar. 2025
• And the Swedes pointed out that the police had tried to ban the protest but were overruled by the courts.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• Again, the Supreme Court took the case and overruled the lower court in a 9-0 ruling.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 21 June 2018
• And in the end, even the tunesmith can be overruled songwise.
  — Britt Julious, chicagotribune.com, 27 Nov. 2019
• The vote was non-binding and can be overruled by the streamer’s board.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
• The judge in that case overruled jurors and sentenced Smith to die.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2024
• Trump can’t overrule the Flores settlement with the stroke of a pen.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 20 June 2018
• The families’ lawyers have asked the judge overseeing the case, George B. Daniels, to overrule her.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
• The only person in the program who can overrule Blanchard is McGuire and the two are very much on the same page.
  — Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2022
• If a board overruled Facebook, the post would be restored.
  — Steven Levy, Wired, 28 Jan. 2020
• The judge overruled his request to throw out the evidence.
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 11 July 2025
• The cases seem destined for the high court, which could choose to overrule its own precedent.
  — Ella Lee, The Hill, 19 Mar. 2025
• The judge has no power to overrule the jury and impose the death penalty.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• The judge overruled the request meaning the defense will have to present its case Friday.
  — Jennie Key, Cincinnati.com, 21 June 2018
• Soller said Lara was not involved in a decision to overrule the judge.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
• To be a local official is to run the risk of being overruled.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• Pryor’s court has overruled Cannon twice in the Trump case.
  — Marilyn W. Thompson, ProPublica, 17 Sep. 2024
• Each time Lindhome thought about it, her heart overruled her brain.
  — Danielle Bacher, Peoplemag, 17 July 2024
• Will Biden overrule them as cases mount and the media call for something to be done?
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Nov. 2020
• That means that there are now five justices who seem likely to vote to overrule Roe v. Wade.
  — Erwin Chemerinsky, Star Tribune, 19 May 2021
• In 2002, Congress overruled objections to the plant brought by the state of Nevada.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025
• And Biden’s White House has the right to overrule a Trump effort to block the release of information.
  — Colleen Long and Zeke Miller, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2021
• The answer lies in how the WGA classifies it and whether the Academy could or would overrule that choice.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 July 2023
• The City Council and Planning Commission can overrule the vote with a two-thirds vote.
  — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 Apr. 2021
• The state is not asking the court to overrule Roe vs. Wade or later cases that reaffirmed it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• Almost the same amount of people (61 percent) think judges should not be able to overrule FDA approval of a drug.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• But the Michigan Supreme Court overruled that decision, concluding that Goss' theory was not speculative, and that his case should proceed.
  — Tresa Baldas, Freep.com, 3 July 2025