Example sentences for: codify

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

  • Federal and state statutes codify this privilege.

  • People who are concerned that the vibrant vitality of English is diminished by its aberrant spelling, reliance on idiom, and inconsistent, ambiguous grammar may derive consolation (but little pleasure) from the attempts to codify the language as described in English Improved.

  • McCain-Feingold would "codify" Beck , by requiring unions to notify their members of this right.

  • Vocal-harmony groups ( do-wop ) from the Northeast and Midwest prefigured the style that Motown would soon codify as "soul ," while Nashville's Everly Brothers anticipated folk-rock .

  • Contrary to popular belief, the point of studying verbal aggression is not to modify or ameliorate or eliminate it—serious scholars consider it bad form to tamper with the evidence—but to describe and codify it, much as investigators have tried to do with all other available phenomena, whether natural or artificial, whether in pure or physical or social science.


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