How to Use annul in a Sentence

annul

verb

• Dre's lawyers wanted the Drai trademark, which was first filed in 2011, to be annulled.
  — Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 10 May 2018
• And surprise number two: The wedding was annulled the next day.
  — As Told To Alexa Tsoulis-Reay and Alyssa Shelasky, The Cut, 17 July 2017
• The initial election in August, the result of which was annulled, had a turnout of about 80%.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2017
• The law was quickly annulled, and the U.S. resumed sending aid.
  — Hannah Hudnall, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
• Supreme Court to order his release in 2019 and later annul the charges against him.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2022
• If such trades are then annulled, the party that won the market bet feels cheated.
  — Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 26 Nov. 2019
• All of the miles collected during his time in the program will be annulled.
  — Anna Schaverien, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2019
• But they are thwarted when their parents annul the union and the young girl stays home in Iowa to help her family, while the young man moves to the city.
  — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 27 Oct. 2023
• One of the precincts that saw its results annulled was in Lyubertsy, in the Moscow region.
  — Matthew Bodner, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• Barak ruled that when laws or parts of laws violated the rights now enshrined in the 1992 Basic Laws, the court had the power to annul them.
  — Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2023
• The remaining three judges annulled the order to release Nasheed.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2018
• A ruling against them would have annulled the 2014 election, forcing Temer out of office.
  — Jill Langlois, latimes.com, 9 June 2017
• So blatant were some of these acts that the results from several of these stations were annulled.
  — Matthew Bodner, Washington Post, 19 Mar. 2018
• Friday's ruling was the first time any court in Africa has annulled election results.
  — Stephanie Busari, CNN, 3 Sep. 2017
• Nearly 83 percent of faculty who voted agreed the degree should be annulled, and now the decision goes to the school's board of trustees.
  — Emma Baty, Cosmopolitan, 28 Feb. 2018
• Last week, the electoral board rejected the CHP’s request to annul the referendum by a 10-1 vote.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2017
• Upon annulling the presidential vote, the Supreme Court ruled that a new election must be held within 60 days.
  — CNN, 21 Sep. 2017
• Turnout was low at less than 40%, around half of that in the poll held in August, which was annulled by the supreme court because of irregularities.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• The C.H.P.’s appeal to annul the entire process will be assessed directly by the national board.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 18 Apr. 2017
• After the arrest of their colleagues, the remaining three judges of the Supreme Court annulled their ruling for the release of Yameen’s opponents.
  — Mohamed Sharuhaan, The Seattle Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• Four months after Chesney and Zellweger had a beachside wedding in 2005, the pair had their marriage annulled.
  — Katie Calautti, Vanities, 28 Mar. 2017
• At the Turkish president’s request, the Supreme Electoral Council annulled the result and called a new election, which was held last week....
  — Soner Cagaptay, WSJ, 30 June 2019
• That statement, made on October 16th, was tested just a week later when Kenyans went to the polls for a re-run of the election on August 8th, which the country’s supreme court annulled.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
• In a first for Africa, the outcome of those elections was annulled by the country’s Supreme Court, which ruled they had been marred by irregularities.
  — Matina Stevis-Gridneff, WSJ, 9 Mar. 2018
• The electoral board annulled the election after Imamoglu served 18 days in office and ordered the election rerun held Sunday.
  — Washington Post, 24 June 2019
• And if teams were not, at heart, businesses reliant on prize money, perhaps the consequences of annulling the season would not be quite so stark.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020
• The first was to strip Mistry of all executive powers and annul all power he had been granted on behalf of Tata Sons.
  — Deepali Gupta, Quartz India, 23 Dec. 2019
• Poland last month filed legal challenges aimed at annulling three of the European Union’s main climate change policies.
  — Barry Hatton and Helena Alves, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
• In 2021, the court outlined very narrow circumstances under which a Basic Law can be annulled.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• After 700 shares were traded at the high price, trading was halted and the transaction later annulled.
  — Ryan Kilpatrick, Fortune, 11 Aug. 2017

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