Example sentences for: legislate

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

  • The GAO as an institution, and the Comptroller General as an officer of the legislative branch, assist the Congress in exercising its responsibilities under the Constitution to oversee, investigate, and legislate.

  • At a Senate hearing, Republican senators worried that a ban on human-cloning research might prevent lifesaving medical breakthroughs, and researchers and ethicists said there is no need to legislate hastily, since it will take a while to refine the sheep-cloning technique to work in humans.

  • The Congress cannot legislate nor can regulators establish by rule human behavior or integrity to always do the right thing in protecting the public's interest.

  • Men such as Governor-General William Bentinck worked with missionaries and reformers such as Brahman Ram Mohan Roy to legislate against the practice of widows becoming sati by climbing onto the funeral pyres of their respective husbands.


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