How to Use rectify in a Sentence

rectify

verb

• The hotel management promised to rectify the problem.
• The Democrats now have a chance to rectify that mistake.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 13 Feb. 2018
• The state adoption of the new policy aims to rectify that.
  — Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
• Friday is now his chance to rectify his play at this event.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• The bill passed this week would rectify some of those shortcomings.
  — Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• This staff worked overtime this spring to rectify that.
  — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
• Can any one of the millions of streaming services out there rectify this for us soon?
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 30 May 2021
• His mother planned to speak with him and rectify the problem.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 5 June 2020
• And what options might be available now to rectify these past wrongs?
  — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 27 May 2022
• One of my goals in becoming a judge is to rectify the bail bond system.
  — Olivia P. Tallet, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2018
• There has been a push to rectify the Earth-science gap.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022
• There doesn’t appear to be an easy way to rectify such mistakes.
  — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2020
• The good news is that the Fed can rectify this issue speedily.
  — Kaleb Nygaard, Fortune, 16 June 2021
• Morris said the new program looks to rectify that problem.
  — Creg Stephenson, AL.com, 9 June 2017
• In the last decade, though, Alsace has gone a long way to rectify these issues.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2022
• The five coastal countries will have to rectify their science and their politics.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 23 July 2019
• So, why is this happening and what can be done to rectify the problem?
  — Nick Sargen, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Notre Dame doesn’t have much time to rectify these mistakes.
  — Laken Litman, Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2017
• Jawed and Habchi set out to rectify that gap in the literature.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
• Apple is hoping to rectify that with upgrades across the new iPhones.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 17 Sep. 2021
• Smith and her Wildcats teammates picked a good time to rectify what happened in the first meeting.
  — Terry Monahan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2022
• The remainder of the first two episodes attempt to rectify this, but with less than ideal results.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
• But that’s a fixable problem that should be rectified for the next homestand.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• My cholesterol is a bit high but can easily be rectified.
  — Jessi Roti, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2017
• That has to be rectified with any new incentive programs.
  — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 9 Jan. 2019
• Harris appears to be trying to rectify her image as the midterms grow closer.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 26 Oct. 2022
• The new season, streaming Friday, aims to rectify that from the get-go.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
• The committee scrambled, putting in long hours to rectify the mistakes.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 2 July 2022
• Hopefully this full pardon will help rectify a very sad portion of his life.
  — Fox News, 14 Apr. 2018
• An effort was afoot to rectify that last vestige of the town’s unbranded origin.
  — Paul Eisenberg, chicagotribune.com, 9 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024