Example sentences for: ratify

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

  • According to the Chemical Manufacturers Association, failure to ratify the ban will cost U.S. producers $600 million each year in lost sales to such countries as Germany, Japan, and India.

  • (Even then, North Carolina and Rhode Island didn't ratify until after George Washington had been sworn in as the first president.)

  • Both China (the third-largest stockpiler) and Russia (the largest) appear to be waiting for the Senate to ratify the treaty before doing so themselves.

  • "This agreement represents unilateral economic disarmament," one lobbyist tells the WP . And all the papers agree that the plan's prospects in the Senate, which must ratify it for the U.S. to become bound to it, are at best iffy.

  • Senate to ratify the Comprehensive [Nuclear] Test Ban Treaty, which the GOP has been threatening to put off until next year.


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