How to Use overrule in a Sentence

overrule

verb

• The judge overruled the objection.
• His conviction was overruled by the supreme court.
• Soller said Lara was not involved in a decision to overrule the judge.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022
• And who better to overrule Eastman than his former boss.
  — Jamie Gangel and Jeremy Herb, CNN, 20 Feb. 2022
• Other factors come in play, such as when to overrule a decaying precedent.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2022
• The legislature cannot overrule the Supreme Court’s decisions.
  — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 16 Feb. 2022
• Judges would then have seven days to either uphold the asylum officer's determination or overrule it.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2022
• Their plan hinges on a section of Avon’s town charter that allows residents to petition to overrule decisions by the council.
  — Don Stacom, courant.com, 8 Feb. 2022
• Under the new system, local residents will vote on whether to overrule discipline handed down by the sheriff rather than an arbitrator.
  — Scott Huddleston, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Feb. 2022
• That decision, which could overrule the landmark Roe v. Wade case from 1973, is expected by late June.
  — CBS News, 21 Jan. 2022
• And the Swedes pointed out that the police had tried to ban the protest but were overruled by the courts.
  — Steven Erlanger, New York Times, 6 July 2023
• The vote was non-binding and can be overruled by the streamer’s board.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2023
• The judge in that case overruled jurors and sentenced Smith to die.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 10 Jan. 2024
• The families’ lawyers have asked the judge overseeing the case, George B. Daniels, to overrule her.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 27 Apr. 2023
• The only person in the program who can overrule Blanchard is McGuire and the two are very much on the same page.
  — Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2022
• The judge has no power to overrule the jury and impose the death penalty.
  — Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2022
• To be a local official is to run the risk of being overruled.
  — Eric Boodman, STAT, 18 Apr. 2023
• The answer lies in how the WGA classifies it and whether the Academy could or would overrule that choice.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 24 July 2023
• The state is not asking the court to overrule Roe vs. Wade or later cases that reaffirmed it.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2022
• Almost the same amount of people (61 percent) think judges should not be able to overrule FDA approval of a drug.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 24 Apr. 2023
• The second would be to give each team a certain number of challenges to overrule the umpire.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• But three of the justices on the court have changed since, all of them replaced by President Trump and all three of whom went on to overrule Roe.
  — Jessie Dimartino, ABC News, 1 July 2022
• The goal was originally overruled on the ice and then ruled a good goal by the replay center in Toronto.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2023
• Yet he was overruled by the opera company owner, who fired Yaw.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• The Democrats were overruled continuously over and over and over again.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2023
• Could the Supreme Court reverse itself and overrule McCleskey some day?
  — Robert L. Tsai / Made By History, TIME, 28 June 2024
• The coach needed to overrule the player’s wishes in the team's best interest.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 19 Apr. 2023
• Judges at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Labrador’s request to overrule that ban late last month.
  — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2024
• That would give ministers the ability to overrule local officials who attempt to block data centers from being built.
  — Morgan Meaker and Isabel Fraser, WIRED, 3 July 2024
• Freedom seemed within his grasp when a circuit judge overturned his conviction and ordered for his release Wednesday — only to be overruled when the state Supreme Court granted the attorney general’s request for a stay.
  — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 7 Sep 2024