How to Use rectify in a Sentence

rectify

verb

• The hotel management promised to rectify the problem.
• The Democrats now have a chance to rectify that mistake.
  — Jeet Heer, New Republic, 13 Feb. 2018
• Let’s hope that’s been rectified as Ubisoft preps a sequel, The Crew 2.
  — Brad Chacos, PCWorld, 12 June 2017
• The state adoption of the new policy aims to rectify that.
  — Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Oct. 2022
• In the last decade, though, Alsace has gone a long way to rectify these issues.
  — New York Times, 24 June 2022
• There has been a push to rectify the Earth-science gap.
  — Kendra Pierre-Louis, The Atlantic, 4 May 2022
• There are 90 minutes, at least, left in which to rectify things.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2018
• For a couple of them, the HFPA might have a chance to rectify that this weekend.
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
• Friday is now his chance to rectify his play at this event.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 17 June 2021
• The new season, streaming Friday, aims to rectify that from the get-go.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
• The bill passed this week would rectify some of those shortcomings.
  — Kim Christensen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Dec. 2020
• For example, the bill gives the owner of a short-term rental 15 days to rectify a problem.
  — Alyssa Johnson, Miami Herald, 28 Feb. 2024
• Chryst and his staff will have to rectify that if Wisconsin wants to compete in the Big Ten West.
  — Terry Towery, chicagotribune.com, 10 Oct. 2021
• The good news is that the Fed can rectify this issue speedily.
  — Kaleb Nygaard, Fortune, 16 June 2021
• This staff worked overtime this spring to rectify that.
  — Tom Noie, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2022
• Jawed and Habchi set out to rectify that gap in the literature.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 4 Apr. 2022
• Notre Dame doesn’t have much time to rectify these mistakes.
  — Laken Litman, Indianapolis Star, 13 Sep. 2017
• That imbalance has not been rectified in the 14 years since.
  — Alyssa Rosenberg, chicagotribune.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• Can any one of the millions of streaming services out there rectify this for us soon?
  — Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 30 May 2021
• The board is scheduled to meet Monday at 9 a.m. to determine how to rectify the gap.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 22 Nov. 2021
• There doesn’t appear to be an easy way to rectify such mistakes.
  — oregonlive, 23 Oct. 2020
• His mother planned to speak with him and rectify the problem.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 5 June 2020
• SpaceX may also make changes to the Starship heat shield to rectify the loss of tiles encountered on Flight 4.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 6 June 2024
• Armed with the insights of your analysis, make a plan to rectify your mistakes and get back out there.
  — Mark C. Perna, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2024
• And what options might be available now to rectify these past wrongs?
  — Anna Altman, The New Republic, 27 May 2022
• One of my goals in becoming a judge is to rectify the bail bond system.
  — Olivia P. Tallet, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2018
• This can be rectified by utilizing tools that can do the heavy lifting for you.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 19 Jan. 2024
• Tauchman is trying to rectify the Wrigley Field omission in the next month.
  — Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 12 Mar. 2023
• Tavares has faced mounting pressure to rectify the automaker's North America operations, where a steep fall in sales and profit have triggered a steep drop in the company's share price.
  — Shivansh Tiwary, Detroit Free Press, 9 Oct. 2024
• The United States must make a concerted effort to rectify its diplomatic shortcomings after decades of relative neglect.
  — Charles Edel, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024