How to Use technicality in a Sentence

technicality

noun

• These cases were dropped because of legal technicalities.
• The technicality could result in a dismissal of the case, the judge said.
  — Nardine Saad, latimes.com, 8 July 2019
• The event is called SpeedWeeks, but the claim comes on a technicality because the 500 is on Sunday, the start of the new week.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• The case dragged on until 2007, when the verdict ruled in Goodyear’s favor based on a technicality in the law.
  — Emily Farra, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2019
• This time, a D.C. appeals court judge threw the case out on a technicality.
  — Sarah Owermohle, STAT, 28 Mar. 2024
• And the Yankees have yet to lose more than two games in a row this season — except on a technicality.
  — Wallace Matthews, New York Times, 21 June 2018
• The technicality of 2025 still being part of the application is a result of the length of this process.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 5 Feb. 2024
• But he was denied a place on the ballot on a technicality two weeks ago.
  — Kostya Manenkov, Star Tribune, 28 July 2020
• So don’t put too much on the technicality of just one act, and instead think of ~losing it~ as a progression.
  — Kim Tranell, Seventeen, 23 Jan. 2023
• The league should want an iconic player to remain with his team, not for him to be dumped over a technicality.
  — Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The technicality invoked by City’s lawyers clinched the case.
  — Tariq Panja, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2023
• Then, in what was seen as a huge victory for gay Ugandans, it was struck down by the courts on a technicality.
  — David McKenzie, CNN, 10 Aug. 2019
• Fans of the long-running game show are up in arms over a technicality that came into play on Wednesday's episode.
  — Tyler Aquilina, EW.com, 1 Apr. 2021
• For a fortnight, on a technicality, for the only time in 12 years, Aidan had a straight-A average.
  — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2021
• At least this is an argument about a technicality in the law.
  — Arkansas Online, 13 Dec. 2020
• Without snow, there is less gear involved and less technicality in the climb.
  — oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2022
• At 86 he was sentenced to 80 years in jail, only for the conviction to be quashed on a technicality.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• At the same time, Rosenstein’s message may have been based on a technicality.
  — James Hohmann, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
• Taking us from the technicalities of growing through to bottling, the tour ended with a six-wine tasting at the on-site restaurant, The Swan.
  — Tyler Wetherall, Condé Nast Traveler, 14 Sep. 2018
• The world championships are the American’s first meet since a technicality helped him avoid a ban for three missed drug tests.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2019
• The fence was a technicality, and water was the real problem.
  — Bradley Babendir, Longreads, 7 June 2018
• On Christmas Eve of 2014, a Supreme Court justice freed him on a technicality.
  — Alex Cuadros, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The news of my win came a month later, but it was retracted soon thereafter based on a technicality.
  — Time, 10 Aug. 2023
• Creed lost a heavyweight fight to Viktor Drago, son of Ivan Drago, but kept his belt due to a technicality.
  — Kimanzi Constable, Parents, 4 Feb. 2024
• There was one ratified in 1992, but that’s kind of a technicality.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 28 Mar. 2018
• The transactional technicality with Jankowski likely spelled the end of Jose Pirela’s time with the Padres.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 July 2019
• In the end, the organization got no money at all from the bill because of a technicality.
  — NBC News, 25 Apr. 2021
• Not once, but twice in the months that followed, Trump’s lawyers raised legal technicalities to knock down Yagman’s flaming rhetoric.
  — Doug Smith, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• There were calls for a review, but the UK’s attorney general appears to have ruled this out on a technicality relating to the court’s status.
  — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 20 Sep. 2024
• Marinova was known for her ballet-like artistry, Akopyan for his power and technicality.
  — Molly Hensley-Clancy, Washington Post, 23 July 2024

Last Updated: 21 Nov 2024