How to Use codify in a Sentence

codify

verb

• The convention codified the rules of war.
• The author tries to codify important ideas about language.
• Hard-line conservatives view the lobbying ban as a priority this year and have filed companion bills in both chambers to codify it.
  — Jasper Scherer, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Mar. 2021
• Despite this, Utah is currently considering a bill that would codify the Space Force as an equal branch of the armed forces.
  — Sara Tabin, The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
• The Equality Act would codify the ruling so that it can’t be rolled back by a future administration.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2021
• Biden reauthorized deference and is now codifying it in the regulation.
  — Tim Ryan, Newsweek, 18 Dec. 2024
• Those agents may have gotten a lift in the waning days of Mr. Trump’s administration, when Trump loyalists tried to codify the influence of those unions.
  — New York Times, 3 Feb. 2021
• The House plans to vote on a bill to codify the program.
  — Mark Maremont, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2022
• The Supreme Court has spoken, and Democrats don't have the votes to codify Roe.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 13 July 2022
• Part of my job was just to be able to sort of like codify those and explain them.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2024
• But the Court itself does not codify those laws—that’s the job of the legislative branch.
  — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 4 May 2022
• There are not enough votes in the Senate to codify Roe v. Wade into law.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 30 June 2022
• Toma said the Legislature had used the 30-minute-per-bill rule for the past two years already, and the new rules codify that.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
• They’re scheduled to meet next week to codify the ticket.
  — Bryan Walsh, Vox, 23 July 2024
• But amendments must pass twice in the state to be codified, meaning the same issue will be on the ballot again in 2026.
  — Alexis Simendinger, The Hill, 6 Nov. 2024
• On Wednesday, a bill to codify Roe into law failed to pass the Senate.
  — CBS News, 14 May 2022
• The mood was one of anger and defiance, three days after the Senate failed to muster enough votes to codify Roe v. Wade.
  — Ashraf Khalil, David Sharp, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2022
• And while there are 26 states that may overturn Roe all or in part, there are also states that will codify Roe.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 15 June 2022
• Scalzitti has an even longer form than her talks to groups to codify her approach.
  — George Castle, Chicago Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
• Democrats urged voters to elect more Democrats to the senate in order to codify Roe into law.
  — CBS News, 15 Dec. 2022
• And this was two decades after the 40-hour workweek was codified into law.
  — Taylor Telford, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
• These are absurd things that are now being codified in law.
  — Kyle Buchanan, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2023
• While the existence of writers room is not codified in the MBA, neither is the existence of a showrunner.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
• Democrats are going to fight to codify Roe from Congress, to stake out the most extreme positions in blue states.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 1 July 2022
• On the subject of hugging, especially the man-on-man hug: Would someone please codify the rules for us guys?
  — Louis J. Esterhazy, WWD, 8 Dec. 2024
• Writing under the watchful eyes of Ezra and Nehemiah, our hero races to codify the Torah and save his people.
  — cleveland, 22 Oct. 2021
• Jim Crow laws, named for a racist depiction of Blacks, sought to codify racial segregation in the South.
  — Stephen Hudak, orlandosentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2021
• The bill also codifies some of the industry standards for the handling of firearms, which had been voluntary.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Congress needs to codify a woman’s right to choose her own destiny.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• Coastal building setbacks are sensible policy measures that, in some states, codify protective buffers from rising seas.
  — Emma Haydocy, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025