Example sentences for: repeal

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

  • But because much of the Mafia's interest in booze died with the repeal of prohibition, what keeps these laws alive is politics.

  • Beyond its practical effects, repeal of the 13 th Amendment would restore to every American what we now know is the most important freedom of all: freedom of contract.

  • There is no mention of mideast diplomacy on the WP front, where the lead is the Senate's repeal yesterday of a $50 billion tax credit for tobacco companies that had been inserted with little fanfare into the budget bill under the prodding of Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott.

  • The WSJ "Tax Report" says the Treasury Department is reiterating its opposition to the repeal of the estate tax, pointing out that fewer than 2 percent of those who die each year leave estates large enough to be subject to it.

  • Democrats and Republicans resolved to repeal the Depression-era Glass-Steagall law, which restricted the cross-ownership of banks, brokerages, and insurers.


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