How to Use amendment in a Sentence

amendment

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  • The entire text of the amendment is on the ballot this year.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 29 Oct. 2020
  • People don’t know about the last half of the amendment.
    — Roger Valdez, Forbes, 2 May 2022
  • The bill may end up being watered down in the amendment process.
    — David McKenzie and Nimi Princewill, CNN, 8 Oct. 2021
  • But the amendment might yet make it into the final bill.
    — Grace Segers, CBS News, 12 July 2019
  • But a recent amendment takes the treaty a step further.
    — Chelsea Harvey, Scientific American, 20 Aug. 2021
  • An amendment could be made to lengthen the time down the line, if needed.
    — Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
  • The second amendment is about the right to defend yourself.
    — Mark Medina, The Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2019
  • But there is a way to enact term limits short of amendment.
    — Artemus Ward, The Conversation, 28 July 2022
  • Opponents said the amendment would have opened the door to new fees and costs to rooftop solar users.
    — Lois K. Solomon, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 July 2018
  • Three-quarters of states would then have to vote in favor for the amendment to pass.
    — Virginia Chamlee, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
  • The bill was not going to pass without those last-minute amendments.
    — Wilborn P. Nobles Iii, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2019
  • But others were against the amendment, wary of its effect on the city budget.
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 4 May 2021
  • In the Senate there are calls for specific amendments to the deal.
    — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2023
  • The amendment was supported by the bill's main sponsors.
    — Erin Kelly, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The law is an amendment to the village’s firearm ordinance already on the books.
    — Natalie Dreier, ajc, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Changing that would require a repeal or amendment of the law setting up the tax.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 14 June 2020
  • The language in that amendment said felons must complete their sentences.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2019
  • The Senate has passed their own version of the act without such an amendment.
    — Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 July 2018
  • This new amendment limits the amount of beer and spirits that businesses can sell.
    — al, 14 Dec. 2020
  • In his eyes, Thursday's amendment made a bad bill worse.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2022
  • The bill, which already passed the House, will be sent back with minor amendments.
    — Cameron McWhirter, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2019
  • Lisa, the amendment process could have been your friend on this one—it’d be way more poignant to write the name of your newest lover.
    — Ginny Hogan, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2021
  • Couch said this amendment is a fair solution to both parties, in his mind.
    — Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online, 29 Dec. 2021
  • His speech would not result in passage that year, but the amendment would pass the following year.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Poor draining soils can be made worse when lots of organic amendments are added to the backfill soil.
    — Ellen Nibali, baltimoresun.com, 12 July 2018
  • Some of those amendments allow for pari-mutuel or other forms of gaming.
    — al, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Florida had just passed an amendment restoring the rights of many former felons.
    — Lori Rozsa, Anchorage Daily News, 1 May 2023
  • The Wolf amendment, as it was later coined, has held for seven years.
    — Alex Stuckey, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Merkley wrote his amendment to apply to hourly, not salaried, workers.
    — Jenna Sauers, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 July 2018
  • But public opinion on the amendment does not fall neatly along party lines.
    — Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2020

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