Example sentences for: decreed

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

  • The only really new material in the file about Oswald: An allowance and a housing subsidy paid to him in addition to his factory job salary were decreed by the Communist Party's Central Committee.

  • When Saturn finally got permission to sell a midsize car, GM decreed that it would be built, not in Spring Hill, but at an ancient GM factory in Wilmington Delaware, which will not be covered by the Saturn labor agreement.

  • Turkish, which is neither Semitic nor Indo-European, was written using Arabic letters until 1928, when Kemal Ataturk decreed that it thenceforth be written in Latin letters.

  • The socialist Lang trashed Rambo ; the conservative Jacques Toubon decreed that 40 percent of songs on the radio must be French chansons . I'm sympathetic to worries about being swamped by U.S. culture, armed as it is with theater monopolies, language advantages, and economies of scale.

  • And the editor decreed that Jacob's first culture column should be called "The Browser."


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