How to Use put before in a Sentence

put before

phrasal verb

• And this goes for most any bill put before me to vote on.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
• The push to stop changing clocks was put before Congress in the last couple of years.
  — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 10 Mar. 2024
• The vote at next week’s AGM will be the second time Musk’s pay package has been put before shareholders.
  — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 8 June 2024
• The ruling would have forced the city to rewrite a portion of the ballot measure before it could be put before voters.
  — Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2024
• Next month’s vote will be the second time Musk’s pay package has been put before shareholders.
  — Dana Hull, Fortune, 18 May 2024
• Because greed and profit put before people is now a disease found in all workplaces in the United States.
  — Manuela Santacatterina, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
• The proposal put before the UN, for example, could claim the 1967 lines as its borders and East Jerusalem as its capital.
  — Isaac Herzog, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2011
• While many of the settlements have been put before the City Council, Winkelman's wasn't because of its lower dollar amount.
  — Skye Seipp, Austin American-Statesman, 14 Mar. 2024
• On Tuesday, Guerin doubled down on that stance, noting the language was pulled from similar measures put before voters across the state.
  — Sierra Lopez, The Mercury News, 10 July 2024
• It will be put before voters in a referendum before it can be adopted.
  — Khaleda Rahman, Newsweek, 20 Feb. 2025
• Anna has a fearless fervor and is ready to throw herself at any challenge The Boulet Brothers' Dragula puts before her in her pursuit for the title.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 3 Oct. 2023
• The temporary restraining order will be put before a court on June 23, The Daily Mail reported.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
• But none of these plans have been put before Congress, and many of them will face legal and legislative roadblocks before they can be fully implemented.
  — BÁlint Madlovics, Foreign Affairs, 10 Feb. 2025
• The editorial board misses the grave threat and precedent that our politicians are putting before voters in November.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2024
• Netanyahu's office said the deal would not be put before Israeli lawmakers to vote on without Hamas' agreement to the original conditions.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
• Most of those who are tried are put before military courts that almost never acquit defendants and often do not follow due process, human rights groups say.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 25 Nov. 2023
• There’s still time for Colorado to avoid the heartbreak of Los Angeles, but only if the lives of future residents and business owners are put before the profit of developers.
  — Tj Hutchinson, The Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2025
• Most of those who are tried are put before military courts that almost never acquit defendants and often don’t follow due process, human rights groups say.
  — Najib Jobain, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Nov. 2023
• The city has released ballot language on its website for the local sales tax measure the Orange City Council voted earlier this month to put before voters in November.
  — Jonathan Horwitz, Orange County Register, 18 July 2024
• The items the four would immediately put before the council, related to homelessness, would vastly differ.
  — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 13 Feb. 2024
• Court hearings continue over what evidence and witnesses will be allowed to put before the jury at the February 18 trial.
  — Iain Martin, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2025
• The five other suits put before the courts in New York Monday see familiar claims of more men and women being drugged with seemingly spiked drinks and assaulted by Combs and his entourage at parties and events, almost in the open on occasion.
  — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 14 Oct. 2024
• The Monday bankruptcy court hearing likely further delays a final Chapter 11 plan Yellow put before the court earlier this month.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 3 Sep. 2019
• Barrett, Trump’s third appointee to the high court, then outright separated herself from the majority’s view that a president’s official acts could not be put before a jury as evidence of a crime.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
• As such, Shmyhal would be tasked with updating it and proposing the changes to put before the government.
  — Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
• But when put before a committee of baseball lifers, the pair was effectively shut out.
  — Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 23 Nov. 2025
• Now, all that only matters if the cases are put before a jury.
  — Zach Schonfeld, The Hill, 15 Oct. 2025
• Shannon could sense the jubilation, and the cart being put before the horse.
  — Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025