How to Use veto-proof in a Sentence

veto-proof

adjective

• Two more yes votes would be required to make the ordinance veto-proof.
  — Jason Rantala, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2026
• The bill passed with 30 votes, four shy of the veto-proof majority.
  — Alexa Herrera, CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
• The bill didn’t pass either chamber with a veto-proof majority.
  — Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 28 Mar. 2026
• The housing bill passed with veto-proof majority in both chambers.
  — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 24 June 2026
• The bill passed both the Senate and House by a veto-proof majority.
  — Fritz Farrow, ABC News, 25 June 2026
• The bill passed with a veto-proof 44-5 majority.
  — Stephanie Giang-Paunon, FOXNews.com, 6 May 2026
• The measure passed the state House and Senate with veto-proof majorities.
  — CBS News, 26 Apr. 2023
• The bill passed with a veto-proof margin, with 48 of the council’s 51 members supporting it.
  — Center Square, The Washington Examiner, 29 Dec. 2025
• That level of support is what’s colloquially called a veto-proof majority.
  — Alex Veiga, Chicago Tribune, 25 June 2026
• That level of support is what's colloquially called a veto-proof majority.
  — ABC News, 24 June 2026
• The legislation passed both chambers earlier this month without veto-proof majorities.
  — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 26 Jan. 2024
• Democrats surely would join in a veto-proof reassertion of congressional prerogative.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 21 Jan. 2026
• Neither chamber is expected to pass a resolution by a veto-proof majority.
  — Dallas Morning News, 1 Mar. 2026
• Congress can block it, but would need a veto-proof majority in both the House and Senate to do so—presuming Trump even wants the deal to go ahead.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 24 July 2026
• That will first require getting the Kansas Senate, which passed a new version of the flat tax earlier this year with a veto-proof majority, on board.
  — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 25 Mar. 2024
• The Senate voted 30–7 for the measure, a veto-proof majority, and so could override Beshear’s move as soon as next week.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2023
• Republicans have a veto-proof majority in the state Senate but are one short of a veto-proof majority in the state House.
  — Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 29 Mar. 2025
• Two Democrats voted for the bill in the Kansas House last week, giving lawmakers a path to a veto-proof majority in that chamber.
  — Andrew Bahl, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Assembling a veto-proof coalition to restore sanity to US tariff policy is a tall order.
  — Daniel De Visé, USA Today, 21 Apr. 2025
• The Legislature passed the measure March 20 with a veto-proof majority.
  — CBS News, 25 Mar. 2023
• Republicans hold a majority in both chambers and a veto-proof majority in the Iowa Senate.
  — Jessie Balmert, The Enquirer, 8 Aug. 2024
• On Wednesday, a veto-proof majority of 42 City Council members voted in favor of it.
  — Clio Chang, Curbed, 13 Nov. 2024
• In North Dakota, similar bills to restrict transgender athletes have passed the House this session with veto-proof majorities.
  — Trisha Ahmed, ajc, 23 Mar. 2023
• The bills passed North Dakota’s legislature with veto-proof majorities before heading to Burgum’s desk.
  — Heather Hamilton, Washington Examiner, 12 Apr. 2023
• Their efforts have been buttressed after obtaining a veto-proof majority in the House in April—thanks to the defection of a Democrat.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 3 July 2023
• This year, the legislation has already regained its veto-proof majority with 67 Senate co-sponsors.
  — Marsha Blackburn, Time, 1 Dec. 2025
• Beshear approved more tax cuts last year, but there was speculation that the GOP’s veto-proof majority in the state legislature was a factor.
  — Taylor Millard, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
• But the House came up 13 votes short of the veto-proof majority, meaning lawmakers are unlikely to override Kelly’s veto.
  — Jenna Barackman, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2024
• Neither chamber achieved a veto-proof majority, making a potential veto override attempt challenging.
  — Matthew Kelly updated April 7, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026
• Democrats now hold veto-proof supermajorities in both chambers with 78 members in the House, the most in modern history, and 40 in the Senate.
  — Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 21 Oct. 2024