Example sentences for: decreed

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

  • During the 1930s, Palestinian responses turned violent . In 1934 Jerusalem's mufti, the spiritual leader of the city's Muslims, decreed that believers were duty bound to murder other Muslims who sold land to Jews.

  • 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.

  • Death was decreed as his wage.

  • How unfortunate that you wound up looking after a pet whose owner decreed it was a Christian Science cat.

  • Nor would it be correct simply to draw comparisons with newspeak or some other centrally decreed and regulated system.


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