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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• The second would be to give each team a certain number of challenges to overrule the umpire.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• But three of the justices on the court have changed since, all of them replaced by President Trump and all three of whom went on to overrule Roe.
  — Jessie Dimartino, ABC News, 1 July 2022
• Those agreements would have to expire or be challenged in court to be overruled.
  — Mimi Montgomery, Axios, 21 Jan. 2025
• And the Appeals Court said only the Supreme Court can overrule that decision.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA Today, 1 July 2025
• The defense team called no witnesses, but raised the threat of appeal minutes into the proceeding with the first of what would be 262 objections overruled that day, a transcript of the hearing shows.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2025