How to Use depose in a Sentence

depose

verb
  • Paxton has been deposed in the Unity case twice since 2019.
    Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 28 Aug. 2023
  • Trump is scheduled to be deposed in that lawsuit this month.
    Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2024
  • Now the Beach family could depose the survivors about what led to the fatal boat crash.
    CBS News, 30 Oct. 2021
  • In both instances, the threat the audience wanted to depose was clear.
    Daniel Bessner, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2022
  • Trump was deposed by James’s office in April, but the contents so far have not been made public.
    Michael Kranish, Anchorage Daily News, 27 July 2023
  • Without the suit, there’s no cause to depose Linda and no threat of exposing the existence of the tapes.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Bailey had assumed the throne, briefly, only to be deposed.
    Hannah Gold, Harper's Magazine, 3 Nov. 2023
  • When the defense counsel in that case was set to depose Rodriguez, the former Yankee dropped the lawsuit.
    Christian Red, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • Araiza is slated to be deposed next week for the civil case that still remains against the four other players.
    Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Now they were being superseded—deposed by the colony—within a year or two.
    Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Scott was deposed over five months ago, and Drake was deposed last November.
    Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 28 Mar. 2024
  • When he was deposed, years later, in a separate matter, there were half a dozen.
    Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2023
  • The city made the offer before Cale Josephs’ lawyer was scheduled to depose the officers involved.
    oregonlive, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Thompson wasn’t deposed for the lawsuit against him in Orange County.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Trump's legal move comes just two weeks after news emerged that James' office is seeking to depose Trump in the fraud inquiry.
    David Jackson, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2021
  • The committee, which seeks to depose Biggs on May 26, explained its thinking in a series of tweets.
    Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 12 May 2022
  • And there's no evidence that the military is working to depose Biden.
    Daniel Funke, USA TODAY, 28 July 2021
  • James' office is seeking to depose the former president as soon as next month.
    Graham Kates, CBS News, 21 Dec. 2021
  • Favre is scheduled to be deposed the morning of Oct. 26, according to a filing Monday in state civil court.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The Justice Department and Google have deposed more than 150 people for the case and produced more than five million pages of documents.
    Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Rosengart also wants to depose Jamie Spears on Britney‘s behalf — an effort being fought by the former‘s legal team.
    Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2022
  • But, Yost’s filing opposes the plaintiffs’ attempts to depose the three, forcing DeWine and others to sit for hours under oath.
    Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 6 Oct. 2021
  • The plan fell apart after Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi was deposed in 2011.
    Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Witnesses testified to new claims against Snyder, who was deposed for more than 11 hours.
    Katherine Rosman, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
  • Parlux’s legal team still seemed annoyed at the fact that their first attempt to depose Jay-Z had been unsuccessful.
    Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2021
  • After Colomey filed his lawsuit, making his claims public, Kirakosian asked to depose him and the city promptly decided to settle the case out of court.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Fighting broke out in April, a few years after both sides jointly deposed Sudan’s longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir in a coup.
    Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Eventually, the judge ruled that Graham would not be deposed due to lack of evidence of his involvement.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The plaintiffs are pressing ahead to depose everyone who might have knowledge of the situation.
    Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But history suggests little chance of a palace coup; since the founding of the People’s Republic, in 1949, no head of the Party has been deposed by underlings.
    Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023

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