How to Use constitutionally in a Sentence

constitutionally

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• I'm afraid that I'm constitutionally incapable of carrying a tune.
• The court found that children are constitutionally different from adults for purposes of sentencing.
  — John Sowell, idahostatesman, 6 Mar. 2018
• All too many Democrats seem constitutionally incapable of mounting a proportionate response to the day’s news.
  — David French, National Review, 9 Feb. 2018
• Property taxes, which might have made up the difference, are constitutionally limited.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 8 Feb. 2018
• 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
• What the proposal does not and cannot do is force us to change our business, which is lawful and constitutionally protected.
  — Fortune, 9 May 2018
• 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
• They are not constitutionally required in the Senate's role of advice and consent.
  — Doug McKelway, Fox News, 26 Sep. 2018
• 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
• This provision ensures that if someone has served two terms as president, they are constitutionally barred from seeking the presidency again, even after a break.
  — Jeremy Yurow, USA TODAY, 21 July 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024