How to Use levy in a Sentence

levy

1 of 2 noun

• The levy will stay in place through the end of the year.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 22 Aug. 2023
• The Orange Schools has not had a levy on the ballot since 2011.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2022
• The Metroparks relies on its levy for more than 60% of its revenue.
  — cleveland, 27 Oct. 2022
• Citi’s estimates show that the levy could amount to 19% of banks’ net profits for the year.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023
• The park district relies on that levy for more than 60% of its revenue.
  — Peter Krouse, cleveland, 9 Nov. 2022
• Other funding comes from a county tax levy and the state.
  — Geoff Mulvihill and Carla K. Johnson, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Nov. 2023
• Forest Hills didn't have a levy on the ballot in November.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 3 May 2023
• The cruise line will also pay a new tourism levy in exchange for the development.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Apr. 2023
• No members of the public spoke at the public hearing on the levy, which took place at the beginning of the Dec. 15 school board meeting.
  — Caroline Kubzansky, Chicago Tribune, 20 Dec. 2022
• The county’s 6% levy on hotel rooms and other short-term lodgings raised more than $300 million last year, the most ever.
  — Stephen Hudak, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2023
• Another increase could come in the property tax levy, which is set to increase by about 2.6% in the new budget.
  — Beck Andrew Salgado, Journal Sentinel, 13 Oct. 2022
• The decision to move forward with the project means delaying building a new North High School until a tax levy can be passed.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 12 July 2023
• Yet rather than close them, lawmakers across the country want to establish a new levy that would create more.
  — John Breaux, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• The tax would slap a 3-cent levy on each kilowatt hour of electricity sold to a vehicle owner.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• Also likely before year’s end is the verdict of a lengthy review of the Trump China tariffs that could result in the lifting of some levies.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2023
• The levy is less than the 9.6 billion yuan profit that Ant generated in the December quarter.
  — Lulu Yilun Chen, Fortune, 7 July 2023
• The House adopted a Healey proposal to cut the levy on the sale of assets held for less than a year from 12 percent 5 percent, which is much closer to rates in other states.
  — Larry Edelman, BostonGlobe.com, 9 June 2023
• The state’s new 7% levy on some capital gains isn’t adjusted for inflation, which means the bite will increase over time.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2022
• The wealth tax would impose a levy upon the capital gains of a subset of the Vermont population who boast a net worth of more than $10 million.
  — Max Zahn, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2024
• The board is expected to vote in December on whether to place a bond levy on the May, 2023 ballot for the public’s consideration.
  — cleveland, 31 Oct. 2022
• Parliament still needs to pass the legislation to introduce the levy.
  — WSJ, 8 Aug. 2023
• Sweden’s government is cutting taxes on gas and diesel, and backing away from a levy on plastic bags.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 25 Nov. 2023
• The levy would replace an existing one that was first introduced in 2005, according to a news release.
  — Linda Gandee, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• That said, district officials defend this year’s tax levy, set at 5 %, but yielding a little over 4 %.
  — Graydon Megan, Chicago Tribune, 10 Mar. 2023
• Taxes also depended on what levies voters approved in the area.
  — Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 31 Jan. 2024
• Those levies were followed by tit-for-tat increases in import duties between the two countries.
  — Gordon H. Hanson, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023
• About $26 million of the project funding will come from the city and grants, Okada said, with no additional property tax levy needed.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 25 Jan. 2024
• Revenue lost to the loophole was partly offset by a simpler-to-administer levy: the estate tax.
  — Andrew Van Dam, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023
• Hunt cut national insurance — a levy paid by people who work — by 2 percentage points.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• Wayne Local School District What: 1.65-mill, 5-year, permanent improvement levy.
  — Sue Kiesewetter, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024

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levy

2 of 2 verb

• They levied a tax on imports.
• The government will levy a fine on the company.
• As with many laments of cultural decline, the charge is most often levied by the old against the young.
  — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
• The Montgomery police said Thursday that no more charges had been levied against the men, but more could come.
  — Remy Tumin, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2023
• And then there are the taxes and fees levied by the airports and even state and local governments.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
• The count restarts in the playoffs, when the league will levy a one-game suspension after seven.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023
• Health-care workers have also levied their share of work stoppages this year.
  — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
• Ford has levied hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against its dealers because of the false billings.
  — Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2024
• But the city won’t be eating the cost of more inspections — fines levied on the apartment owners will cover that.
  — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 23 Mar. 2023
• This would eliminate one of the rounds of taxation levied at the point of the tea’s sales to middlemen within Britain.
  — The Editors, National Review, 16 Dec. 2023
• No fines have been levied so far — or at least none have been reported publicly.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• According to the report, Alabama levies a host of fees that go to fund all sorts of agencies.
  — Ralph Chapoco, al, 9 Aug. 2023
• Over the course of her tenure, Dixon opened more than 80 probes into the biggest global players and levied over €2.8 billion in fines.
  — Stephanie Bodoni, Fortune Europe, 8 Mar. 2024
• James levied the $250 million fraud case against the former president last year.
  — Jack Birle, Washington Examiner, 16 Nov. 2023
• Safety concerns, such as the risk of stroke, have been levied against chiropractic care.
  — Maria Williams, USA TODAY, 15 Aug. 2023
• The County Board of Supervisors would also need a two-thirds vote to levy the sales tax increase.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 12 July 2023
• Ohio has no corporate income tax but does levy a tax on gross receipts.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2023
• Last month the company announced plans to levy fees on online grocery orders of less than $150.
  — Spencer Soper, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Feb. 2023
• And if a golfer fails to show up for their reservation, an additional $10 no-show penalty will be levied.
  — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2024
• Christie has levied attacks against his other 2024 rivals in recent days.
  — Nnamdi Egwuonwu, NBC News, 25 July 2023
• Hyatt decamped to Nevada, which does not levy income tax.
  — K. Lloyd Billingsley, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2024
• The new law passed at voters’ behest also allows for the state to collect a 9 percent tax on cannabis sales, which is the amount levied for alcohol.
  — Michael Brice-Saddler, Washington Post, 30 June 2023
• The attorney general, Letitia James, has asked a judge to levy a penalty of about $370 million on Mr. Trump.
  — Kate Christobek, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
• Last year, California became the first state in the nation to levy a tax on guns and ammunition.
  — Baltimore Sun Editorial Board, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
• Tennessee has a 7% state sales tax, though local governments can also levy a sales tax of up to 2.75%.
  — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2023
• The order states that the civil fine levied by ADEM does not shield the landfill owners from any criminal penalties related to the fire.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 20 July 2023
• The new tax is levied against the buyer for residential property sales of $1 million or more — with no tax on the first $1 million in value.
  — Morgan Lee, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
• Illinois law does not require an appeals process for a fine levied by a condominium board.
  — Howard Dakoff, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2023
• But in the nearly two years of protests against Cop City, domestic-terrorism charges have been levied against 42 people protesting the project, and one person has been killed.
  — Curbed, 21 June 2023
• For most of its history, ancient Egypt levied taxes on goods, with officials collecting dues in the form of grain, textiles, labor, cattle and other commodities.
  — Kate McMahon, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024