How to Use hereby in a Sentence

hereby

adverb
  • The sum will hereby be charged to your account.
  • The parties to the lawsuit hereby agree to settle the matter out of court.
  • I hereby declare the Olympic Games officially open.
  • And you are hereby alerted to the fact that this is not a rebus, so leave that rebus key alone.
    New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
  • All other pop stars are hereby on notice: take the year off.
    Alex Rees, Cosmopolitan, 2 Feb. 2018
  • So, the death sentences are hereby vacated or set aside.
    Tasha Lemley, Scientific American, 4 Feb. 2022
  • Nor is there any recourse for young transgender women who are hereby stripped of their right to play sports.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 3 June 2022
  • You are hereby authorized to ask the waiter quietly to return the salad to the kitchen to be cut into bite-size pieces.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 24 Jan. 2023
  • You are hereby authorized to ask the waiter quietly to return the salad to the kitchen to be cut into bite-sized pieces.
    Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • You are hereby authorized to ask the waiter quietly to return the salad to the kitchen to be cut into bite-sized pieces.
    Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
  • It is therefore ordered and adjudged that the said Donald John Trump be and he is hereby acquitted of the charges in said articles.
    NBC News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • This summer, all our thirst traps and sext exchanges are hereby sponsored by Rihanna, the alpha and omega of savage.
    Allison P. Davis, The Cut, 11 May 2018
  • All prisoners of the moment are hereby ordered to spend a week in the hot box after Auburn 49, Mississippi State 10.
    Kevin Scarbinsky, AL.com, 30 Sep. 2017
  • Both donated by Dave Prevar, who hereby admits to sending viruses through the mail.
    Washington Post, 11 Nov. 2021
  • You are hereby further instructed and directed not to come upon the premises . . .
    Glenn Frankel, VanityFair.com, 22 Feb. 2017
  • Americans shall have good health care, and the secretary of health and human services is hereby empowered to do what is necessary to make that happen.
    Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 23 June 2019
  • Curiously enough, Chicago has heard next to none of his music, an oversight Grant Park hereby rectifies.
    John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 29 June 2017
  • Because the demand is bogus, CRC hereby rejects it in its totality.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Further, the serving of alcoholic beverages to any person who is not seated at a table / counter / bar is hereby prohibited.
    Giana Han, al, 27 Aug. 2020
  • In a range of shades, including basic black, more vibrant varieties like the above yellow and even a snakeskin, the endless dilemma of how to possibly hold your drink and your bag simultaneously is hereby solved.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Apr. 2014
  • In a range of shades, including basic black, more vibrant varieties like the above yellow and even a snakeskin, the endless dilemma of how to possibly hold your drink and your bag simultaneously is hereby solved.
    Kerry Pieri, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Apr. 2014
  • Nominations are hereby open to help the Stanford sports information department find the best songs to use in promoting Bryce Love’s Heisman candidacy.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Oct. 2017
  • All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.
    Washington Post, 15 Apr. 2021
  • All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.
    Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Readers are hereby informed that all dwellings listed herein are available on an equal opportunity basis.
    Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2015
  • In the court of public opinion that 2018 title is hereby tainted until further notice and unless MLB provides them complete exoneration.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Kingdoms are hereby united into a single office, a succession of powerful sorcerer-kings could prove stranger and stronger than anyone expected.
    Christian Holub, EW.com, 19 May 2021
  • You are hereby directed to initiate criminal investigation with regard to the lapses of the above officers to prevent and minimize the above attack,’’ Livera wrote to Wickremaratne.
    Bharatha Mallawarachi, BostonGlobe.com, 20 June 2019
  • Per Coach Harbaugh, you are hereby indefinitely suspended.
    Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Students who are disciplined for walking out or otherwise staging a respectful and peaceful protest against gun violence, are hereby assured that it can be reported on their Penn State application without adverse effect on their admission decision.
    Victoria Rodriguez, Seventeen, 28 Feb. 2018

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