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.
• Her subsequent work helped codify the sound known as hyperpop, with noise and chaos serving to keep some listeners away and draw others closer in.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2022
• Advocates for the indigenous tribes had hoped to codify the order to ensure that the practice would continue.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• Three other states drafted similar bills, but Arizona is the first to codify the strategy.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
• The bill would codify restrictions on Russian oil that Biden has already put in place through executive action.
  — CBS News, 7 Apr. 2022
• Her amendments, including one to codify federal Civil Rights law, were not adopted.
  — Arika Herron, The Indianapolis Star, 24 Feb. 2022
• The presentation of these laws on the inscription was for the purpose of making the king look good through propaganda, but, as research shows, not in order to codify practiced law.
  — Samuel L. Boyd, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2022
• With the ban, the emperor was able to craftily codify efficient agricultural practices and, in so doing, help give shape and purpose to a nation whose unity was still uncertain.
  — New York Times, 3 Mar. 2022
• A lot of what their union has done, according to Dr. Campbell, is to codify in their contract what was already in the university's faculty handbook.
  — Whizy Kim, refinery29.com, 4 Feb. 2022
• In our era of therapy speak, the impulse to psychoanalyze Jackson here is boundless, as is the desire to codify her perspective in the language of trauma.
  — Kovie Biakolo, ELLE, 24 Feb. 2022
• The governor is seeking legislation that would codify his executive action putting benchmarking in place.
  — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The bill also codifies some of the industry standards for the handling of firearms, which had been voluntary.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 27 June 2023
• Legislators have pushed to codify the ban under State Law, but that effort fell short in the last State Legislative session.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 23 Sep. 2024
• Yet, perversely, his behavior is also condoned, even codified, by church and state.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 30 Oct 2024