How to Use enshrine in a Sentence

enshrine

verb
  • Lawmakers are trying again this year to enshrine the curtailment of solitary confinement in law.
    Kelan Lyons, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • The Utah House killed a proposal to enshrine a right to privacy in the state constitution.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 25 Feb. 2022
  • But the criticism prompted museum officials to shift gears and decide to enshrine it as a permanent exhibition.
    New York Times, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Congress is negotiating legislation that would enshrine those trade actions into law.
    Arkansas Online, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Any attempt to enshrine housing as a right would put the onus on government leaders, national, state, and local, to ensure that even in a free housing market, everyone has a roof over their heads.
    Camille Squires, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Ken Wissoker has helped to enshrine cultural studies in the American academy.
    Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The assembly is composed of equal representation of men and women and could ultimately enshrine reproductive rights in the charter.
    Monika Rębała, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2022
  • All of this to say, a system of morals isn’t enshrined in the game’s code.
    WIRED, 20 Sep. 2023
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • Tennesseans this Election Day will vote on whether to enshrine right to work in the state constitution.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 Oct. 2022
  • As was the case with the Boston carpenters, our moral ideas about work can help to enshrine the status quo and fortify the power of the rich.
    Charlie Tyson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • In 1868, gossip was enshrined in print courtesy of a pamphlet published by James Castello, who described Palmer’s murder of her first two husbands – both via poisoning.
    Jack Bantock, CNN, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Reproductive rights are zealously protected, and they are enshrined in the state constitution.
    Scott Cohn, CNBC, 13 July 2024

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