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.
• 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
• The intent of the bill was to codify good health care practices and give them the force of law, Mr. Poe said.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Existing rules of the road haven’t been codified in a formal rule.
  — Andrew Ackerman, WSJ, 30 Jan. 2020
• 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
• And so figuring out how to codify that and ensure that all of our kids get that is paramount for me.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2020
• The bill would not have extended the state of emergency and did not codify her stay at home order.
  — Jack Turman, CBS News, 1 May 2020
• Congress needs to codify the current rules and expand them.
  — Marie Fishpaw, National Review, 18 Oct. 2020
• 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
• Note that the law does not just constitute and codify claims to property.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Hadden and Young have said those changes and more need to be permanently codified.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 4 Feb. 2025
• The Trump administration is likely to face legal challenges over the order, but the law that codifies the administration of the foreign service is fairly deferential to the secretary of state.
  — Will Steakin, ABC News, 12 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 17 Mar 2025