How to Use constitutionally in a Sentence

constitutionally

adverb
  • I'm afraid that I'm constitutionally incapable of carrying a tune.
  • They are not constitutionally required in the Senate's role of advice and consent.
    Doug McKelway, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2018
  • It is constitutionally required to pass a budget by June 15.
    Alexei Koseff, SFChronicle.com, 9 June 2019
  • The county is constitutionally mandated to provide an attorney for alleged offenders who can’t afford to hire one.
    Jerzy Shedlock, The Seattle Times, 27 Nov. 2018
  • The logic here is that it is constitutionally complicated to indict a sitting President.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 6 June 2019
  • That conduct is very close to the line and very much over the line to what is constitutionally allowed.
    Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Instead, all the court can do, constitutionally speaking, is get out of the way.
    Ryan D. Doerfler, The New Republic, 13 Oct. 2020
  • This case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled in 1935 that Congress had acted constitutionally.
    Lauren Peller, ABC News, 11 July 2024
  • All of this is to say that Donald Trump is, constitutionally speaking, just a guy.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • Her main job is to see the country through to elections, which constitutionally have to be held before the end of January.
    Max De Haldevang, Quartz, 15 Nov. 2019
  • But should that give him the right to run for reelection, something that’s constitutionally banned?
    Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But Fox, a constitutionally speedy person, also speaks of learning how to be still within his life, to slow down, look around.
    Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • People who lose control of their substance use have long been deemed constitutionally weak-willed, doomed to a life of moral turpitude.
    Zachary Siegel, Scientific American, 9 July 2024
  • There are people who are just holding their breath and seeing if the President can go through the next 60 days until he's constitutionally bound to leave the White House.
    Alison Medley, Chron, 18 Nov. 2020
  • That said, the bulk of her opinion is quite clear that the laws cannot constitutionally be applied to core features like Facebook’s Newsfeed or YouTube’s homepage.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 1 July 2024
  • The speaker argued that proxy voting could lead to bills being passed in a way that could be constitutionally invalid.
    Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Widodo has served two terms and is constitutionally barred from seeking a third.
    Winda Charmila, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2024
  • But the island's Supreme Court ruled Vázquez was constitutionally next in line as justice secretary since there was no secretary of state at the time.
    DÁnica Coto, Star Tribune, 12 Aug. 2020
  • House members are constitutionally required to be at least 25 years of age or older and Cawthorn will hit that milestone in August.
    CBS News, 24 June 2020
  • The critics’ appraisal was confirmed by the Supreme Court’s swift dismissal of the suit Friday as constitutionally groundless.
    Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2020
  • The second thought is the answer to the question; big changes are constitutionally very difficult in our system because of the Senate and the filibuster.
    Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 1 Sep. 2020
  • As a result, Congress has established the Supreme Court, which is the highest court of the land, seating nine members since 1869 but not constitutionally bound to that number.
    Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Electors will meet on Dec. 14 to cast their votes, a process that is, constitutionally, what determines the next president.
    Brian Chasnoff, ExpressNews.com, 20 Nov. 2020
  • For the constitutionally morbid, such as Leopold, nowhere can outgloom Venice.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The rest of the NL wild-card field is a sorry bunch, either melting under pressure (the Mets and Phillies) or constitutionally incapable of rising to the occasion.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • The federal court’s pledge Wednesday to order use of the third set of constitutionally flawed maps is not an ideal solution.
    Robert Higgs, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Stepping down when constitutionally required to do is not hard, compared with what Nobel prizewinners for physics have to achieve.
    The Economist, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Plates, cups, books, bodies, and all the rest are too small, not contingently, but constitutionally.
    Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Macron is not constitutionally obliged to appoint a prime minister from the largest bloc, and so could call on a candidate outside of mainstream politics to manage day-to-day matters.
    Joseph Ataman, CNN, 16 July 2024
  • While members of the British royal family are constitutionally non-political and King Charles does not hold a political role, they are known to speak out around major events.
    Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2024

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