How to Use decree in a Sentence

decree

1 of 2 noun

• Their marriage was annulled by judicial decree.
• The President issued a decree making the day a national holiday.
• The decree ordered the armed forces to neutralize the groups.
  — Julia Symmes Cobb and Rosalba O'Brien, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Jan. 2024
• The birthplace of the Arab revolts, it is now ruled by one-man decree.
  — New York Times, 10 Oct. 2021
• The decree said nothing about women’s right to study and work.
  — Margherita Stancati, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2021
• The rules, the sainted Laws, decree that once a game has restarted, it cannot be stopped.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2023
• The decree was issued on the day that Italy won an important match in the World Cup.
  — Alexander Stille, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• At least one artist felt forced to respond to Ben Gvir’s decree.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
• Both decrees said the three churches would merge to form a single parish.
  — Ted Slowik, Daily Southtown, 12 June 2019
• This, though, was a death decree, and Rushdie became a hunted man.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Sanalla rejected the decree at the time and called on the council to revoke it.
  — Salma El Wardany, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2017
• The few Black businesses near the water were forced out by city decree.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2021
• There was no trial, just a decree, signed in the judge’s shaky cursive, on the grounds of abandonment.
  — April White, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2022
• Craxi flew back from a state visit in the U.K. and passed a special decree putting Berlusconi’s networks back on the air.
  — Alexander Stille, The New Republic, 13 June 2023
• First came the fiat – the decree of the form legal tender would take (coins, bullion, etc.).
  — Robert Hockett, Forbes, 4 July 2021
• The stone, according to the Greek inscription, was a decree.
  — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 29 Dec. 2022
• As a result of the decrees, many Moroccan Jews lost their jobs.
  — Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
• The decree is to keep his eyes below the offensive lineman.
  — John Shinn Diehards, ajc, 15 Nov. 2017
• The addition of the a state bat and mushroom aren’t the only new decrees or laws that took effect on New Year’s Day.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 3 Jan. 2024
• Now, their divorce decree has come through, and Gail is filled with regret.
  — David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 Jan. 2018
• Netflix has issued a decree about The Crown's take on real-life events.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 21 Oct. 2022
• Abbas, who has ruled by decree for over a decade, denies this.
  — NBC News, 11 Dec. 2021
• Plants do best in the conditions that nature decrees for them.
  — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• Quaintly state to yourself, as if to God, a formal decree.
  — Joyce Carol Oates, The New Yorker, 30 July 2020
• All the Sikhs—royalty or commoner, rich or poor—have been abiding by the decree of the takhat.
  — Sondeep Sankar, Quartz India, 3 Sep. 2019
• Their divorce decree was mailed on April 25 — two days after she was killed.
  — David Gambacorta, Philly.com, 30 Apr. 2018
• Since early last year, Moïse had been ruling by decree.
  — Tamanisha John, The Conversation, 7 July 2021
• But officials there and elsewhere caution that decrees are just one tool not, not a cure-all.
  — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 9 Mar. 2023
• Then, by city decree, all New Orleans watering holes were forced to close.
  — Better Homes & Gardens, 15 Feb. 2022
• Mr. Dragnea said before the decree was passed on Tuesday.
  — Palko Karasz The New York Times, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2017

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decree

2 of 2 verb

• The change was decreed by the President.
• The City Council has decreed that all dogs must be kept on a leash.
• The government decreed a national holiday.
• Ballard’s decrees about this team not being about one man, about Luck, will be put to the test now and in the future.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 25 Aug. 2019
• Snow's set was filled with the kind of moves that once made TV censors decree that Elvis be shown only from the waist up.
  — Christopher Spata Tampa Bay Times (tns), Arkansas Online, 17 July 2023
• The act decreed that whites were not allowed to buy land from Natives, and vice versa.
  — oregonlive, 26 Apr. 2020
• Taft, maybe, or Buddy LaRosa – decreed that there was something magical about the 4th game of the year.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 26 Oct. 2017
• The demographics of the mentee pool are shaped by the fact that NIH has decreed the program must be open to all comers.
  — Jeffrey Mervis, Science | AAAS, 24 Oct. 2017
• Then the king abruptly decreed that women would be allowed to drive next year, ending a decades-long ban.
  — The Economist, 5 Nov. 2017
• Labels must be fixed, or so decree the TV debate shows.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 25 Nov. 2020
• The Academy liked the no-pressure results and decreed no need for an official host for the second year in a row.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2020
• In 2016, a federal judge ruled against Rauner, decreeing that the governor didn't have standing in the case.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 17 Oct. 2017
• Early Roman laws decreed that no tombs could exist within the city walls, so the highways leading up to the city were lined with tombs.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2023
• So far, Taliban mullahs have yet to decree what shape and form art and culture will be permitted to exist in the new Afghanistan.
  — Washington Post, 3 Sep. 2021
• In another change to church law this year, Francis decreed that victims cannot be silenced, and have the right to learn the outcomes of their cases.
  — Nicole Winfield, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2019
• The country’s ruler has decreed that women don’t need their guardian’s approval to get their licenses.
  — Margaret Coker, New York Times, 23 June 2018
• Around the same time, San Clemente founder Ole Hanson decreed his entire community would be built that way.
  — Steve Carney, latimes.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• At one point, Newton decreed that Agee could nurse David for only seven minutes per breast.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 14 June 2023
• Correct form decreed that they were never worn at hotels.
  — Caroline Hallemann, Town & Country, 25 Jan. 2018
• His girlfriend, who eventually became his wife, decreed: Leave the gang, or I'm gone.
  — Peter Nickeas, chicagotribune.com, 28 Apr. 2017
• Current rules decree that Brunellos must age in barrel for two years and at least four months in bottle, which is quite a short minimum.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 7 May 2021
• In 1992, the Interstate Commerce Commission sided with the business group and decreed that the tracks had to be demolished.
  — The Economist, 24 Jan. 2020
• Parliament announced a new measure, decreeing that her child—regardless of gender—was the next heir to the British throne.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 23 Apr. 2018
• Our laws of physics clearly decree that the big bang ought to have created equal parts matter and antimatter.
  — Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 27 Sep. 2023
• Spooked, Pharaoh decreed that all male babies be murdered, which is why Moses was hidden in a basket among the Nile’s bulrushes, to protect him.
  — Menachem Wecker, National Review, 1 Nov. 2017
• Lycurgus, the founder of the Spartan regime, is said to have decreed that only iron bars would be accepted as currency.
  — Nick Burns, The New Republic, 7 Aug. 2019
• The perpetrators were protected by a blanket amnesty decreed in 1993 as part of a peace accord.
  — The Economist, 29 June 2019
• If anything, the gilets jaunes protests showed that public policy cannot be decreed from on high, and Mr Macron claims that he has heard and understood this message.
  — The Economist, 15 June 2019
• The original script had the two characters kissing — but ABC’s director of standards and practices decreed that a kiss was not to be shown.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, latimes.com, 9 June 2018
• Rihanna and Bella Hadid wear them all the time, and Kanye has officially decreed that big frames are over.
  — Indya Brown, The Cut, 12 Mar. 2018

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