Example sentences for: amend

How can you use “amend” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • But McCain does not favor public financing for congressional campaigns and doesn't think it's necessary to amend the Constitution to get meaningful reform.

  • Accounting for ethnicity, you might amend Young this way (to the extent that "merit" and academic performance are the same thing): an ethnic group's long-term cultural orientation to education, plus its level of sociological ambition in American society at the moment, will equal its members' merit.

  • Third, the Commission proposed to amend a Commission rule regarding packaging to clarify that the type of hearing aid compatibility referred to is electro-magnetic coil compatibility.

  • Zakaria realized his error before publication and tried to amend his copy, but his editors failed to make the change in time (though we have now rectified our slip).

  • The relevant portion of §504(a)(16) prohibits funding of any organization "that initiates legal representation or participates in any other way, in litigation, lobbying, or rulemaking, involving an effort to reform a Federal or State welfare system, except that this paragraph shall not be construed to preclude a recipient from representing an individual eligible client who is seeking specific relief from a welfare agency if such relief does not involve an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing law in effect on the date of the initiation of the representation."


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