How to Use enshrine in a Sentence

enshrine

verb
  • The other would enshrine in the constitution the state’s current law, which bars most abortions after 12 weeks — but would allow for further restrictions.
    Geoff Mulvihill, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2024
  • All of this to say, a system of morals isn’t enshrined in the game’s code.
    WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • That, despite the fact that the right to a union has been enshrined in U.S. law for 89 years.
    Mahnoor Khan, Fortune, 2 Sep. 2024
  • What put Lucky at risk was the very thing J. D. Vance wants to enshrine.
    Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2024
  • In response, the open web ought to be enshrined as a matter of law.
    Tim Hwang, WIRED, 11 July 2023
  • That limit was enshrined in law by the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
    Hanna Ziady, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Otto was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1980.
    Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, 20 May 2024
  • For the 1%, couture fashion is a chance to indulge, to splurge, to flex, to enshrine, even.
    Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN, 8 July 2022
  • And a bill that would enshrine Roe v. Wade into law failed by a 49-51 vote last May.
    Merdie Nzanga, USA TODAY, 3 July 2022
  • While the fan vote is not a guarantee that Michael will be enshrined in Cleveland, the late Wham!
    Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 1 May 2023
  • Ware becomes the 23rd Dallas Cowboy to be enshrined in the Ring of Honor.
    Clarence E. Hill Jr., Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The two-term limit was later enshrined in the 22nd Amendment.
    Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 14 Sep. 2024
  • The Coronation Oath has stood for centuries and is enshrined in law.
    Town & Country, 7 May 2023
  • The struggle to preserve such ideals is helped by protecting the sites that enshrine them.
    Mindy Belz, WSJ, 23 Nov. 2022
  • The bill would also enshrine the apology at the state Capitol.
    Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 23 May 2024
  • All four players are enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 7 June 2023
  • Some are less weighty, such as whether Utah voters will enshrine the right to hunt and fish in the state constitution.
    Sarah Elbeshbishi, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2020
  • But House Bill 2898 would enshrine in state law that school boards have the final say on mask policy.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 28 May 2021
  • And the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.
    CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The wider Python franchise is enshrined in the British media royalty.
    Byryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Posey is the only person enshrined in the basketball and baseball Halls of Fame.
    Billy Witz, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Barak ruled that when laws or parts of laws violated the rights now enshrined in the 1992 Basic Laws, the court had the power to annul them.
    Joshua Leifer, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The exchange enshrined Brand as perhaps the nation’s foremost lefty.
    Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Regardless, Ramirez sounded confident that one day he will be enshrined with the rest of the game’s greats.
    Joe Noga, cleveland, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The exemption was never enshrined in a law that the Supreme Court views as equitable.
    Mick Krever, CNN, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Colorado voters will have the chance to amend the state constitution to enshrine school choice.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • To reckon with the treatment of horses is to grapple with a world that wants to both enshrine and shatter women.
    Margaret Wappler, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Tennesseans this Election Day will vote on whether to enshrine right to work in the state constitution.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Khamenei would also enshrine a ban on nuclear weapons in law, Zarif says.
    CNN, 19 Aug. 2021
  • Proposition 133 would nullify the creation of open primaries and enshrine the current partisan primary system in the state Constitution.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 5 Nov. 2024

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