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
• All of the trustees blamed Cedar Fair and have demanded that the firm does something to rectify the loss of the trees.
  — Kaylee Remington, cleveland.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• And just one week left to rectify the poor play that’s been on display to end the season.
  — Fiifi Frimpong, New York Daily News, 12 Apr. 2025
• With that, many felt the Hall of Fame was the right next step to rectify Rose’s absence from the game since the early 1990s.
  — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 14 May 2025
• Let’s hope that’s been rectified as Ubisoft preps a sequel, The Crew 2.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 12 June 2017
• But the team didn't get enough value from the Doncic deal, and this could be a way to help rectify that.
  — Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 June 2025
• The state adoption of the new policy aims to rectify that.
  — Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
• In the last decade, though, Alsace has gone a long way to rectify these issues.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2022
• If there was no chance for a shot with the Tigers, maybe the Orioles can rectify that and give him a return to the bigs at age 32.
  — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 13 Nov. 2019
• There has been a push to rectify the Earth-science gap.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022
• There are 90 minutes, at least, left in which to rectify things.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• For a couple of them, the HFPA might have a chance to rectify that this weekend.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
• Friday is now his chance to rectify his play at this event.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• The new season, streaming Friday, aims to rectify that from the get-go.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
• The bill passed this week would rectify some of those shortcomings.
  — Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• Nonetheless, the Colts have now taken down the video and will now look to rectify the mistake.
  — Matt Levine, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
• For example, the bill gives the owner of a short-term rental 15 days to rectify a problem.
  — Alyssa Johnson, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
• Chryst and his staff will have to rectify that if Wisconsin wants to compete in the Big Ten West.
  — Terry Towery, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• The good news is that the Fed can rectify this issue speedily.
  — Kaleb Nygaard, Fortune, 16 June 2021
• This staff worked overtime this spring to rectify that.
  — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
• Jawed and Habchi set out to rectify that gap in the literature.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
• Notre Dame doesn’t have much time to rectify these mistakes.
  — Laken Litman, Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2017
• That imbalance has not been rectified in the 14 years since.
  — Alyssa Rosenberg, chicagotribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Can any one of the millions of streaming services out there rectify this for us soon?
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 30 May 2021
• The board is scheduled to meet Monday at 9 a.m. to determine how to rectify the gap.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 22 Nov. 2021
• There doesn’t appear to be an easy way to rectify such mistakes.
  — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2020
• His mother planned to speak with him and rectify the problem.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 5 June 2020
• Musk admitted as much and said the company is trying to rectify the issue.
  — Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 11 July 2025
• There’s a new all-women racing series called F1 Academy aimed at rectifying that shortfall, and the races take place before the F1 events.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA Today, 26 June 2025