How to Use statute in a Sentence

statute

noun

• The state legislature passed the statute by an overwhelming margin.
• The basis for the claim is the statute that created the NRB in 1967.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 July 2021
• Forty-eight states now have some version of the statute.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• The leading precedent on the statute comes from a case from 1863!
  — Jeffrey Toobin, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
• Those types of recusals are spelled out by the statute as well.
  — Tierney Sneed, CNN, 29 Mar. 2022
• Prosecutions have soared in the 30 states with the statutes on the books.
  — Lizzie Presser, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2024
• That vote then triggers a statute that makes the board's files open to the public.
  — Stephen Groves, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
• Well, first, these are types of statutes that exist in state law.
  — CBS News, 18 Aug. 2024
• Washington is not party to the statute that set up the ICC.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 27 July 2023
• Twenty-one states have their own version of the statute.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 5 Oct. 2021
• The statute was at the heart of Trump's strategy to overturn the 2020 election.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 6 June 2022
• Georgia did not have a hate crime statute at the time of Mr. Arbery’s death.
  — New York Times, 2 Feb. 2022
• Lee quickly signed off on the statute and it was set to take effect April 1.
  — Kimberlee Kruesi, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• The Arkansas statute is on hold as it has been challenged in the courts.
  — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• Still, there is no such statute as yet, so invite them.
  — Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2021
• The other five AMAs in the state were established by statute.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 24 Oct. 2024
• Idaho became the first state to adopt a similar law to the Texas statute.
  — Veronica Stracqualursi, CNN, 25 Mar. 2022
• With the Rome Statute, Ukraine and Russia are not currently parties to the statute.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022
• It has since been strengthened by state lawmakers, spurred by the attack to add teeth to the statute.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• Those statutes could carry sentences of decades in prison.
  — Alexandra Glorioso, Miami Herald, 1 May 2025
• The statute is named for Josef Neumann, who was stabbed to death at a rabbi’s home during Hanukkah of 2020.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The assistant chief told him to read the state’s assault statute and decide from there.
  — Courtney Tanner, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
• All of these statutes were dead by the Roaring ’20s, if not earlier.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 26 June 2024
• States and some tribes also have their own habeas corpus statutes.
  — Andrea Seielstad, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2025
• The rest must be spent as directed by statute, according to the DHS.
  — Ryan Randazzo, AZCentral.com, 18 Apr. 2022
• The case was tried as such under a brand-new post-9/11 federal hate crime statute.
  — Outside Online, 13 May 2022
• There is no statute of limitation on rape in the state of Maryland.
  — Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2022
• West Virginia doesn’t have a trigger law, but does have an old statute on the books that had been shelved while Roe was in place.
  — Kimberlee Kruesi and Leah Willingham, Anchorage Daily News, 27 June 2022
• None of those carries the teeth of an administrative fine of up to $5,000 for each violation of Florida statutes.
  — David J. Neal july 23, Miami Herald, 23 July 2025
• In his dissent, Clifton argued that the state was within its rights to deny Bates under the statute and disagreed with the majority’s holding that the state violated her First Amendment rights.
  — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 24 July 2025