How to Use impeach in a Sentence

impeach

verb
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  • The defense lawyers tried to impeach the witness's testimony by forcing him to admit that he had changed his story.
  • Congress will vote on whether or not to impeach the President.
  • And Trump was the first president to be impeached twice.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 24 Jan. 2024
  • Trump was impeached twice by the House, but not convicted by the Senate.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Trump was impeached by the House but acquitted by the Senate.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2023
  • Meantime, Democrats impeached Trump, not once but twice.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 4 Oct. 2023
  • That was four votes shy of the two-thirds majority that will be needed to impeach.
    — Diana Durán, Washington Post, 9 May 2023
  • But one thing’s for sure: Brian Kemp is so getting impeached now.
    — Pat Cassels, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Trump has been impeached twice but not removed from office.
    — Austin Sarat, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Kinzinger was one of the few Republicans to vote to impeach Trump for the January 6 riot.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Paxton has been suspended from duties since he was impeached by the Texas House in late May.
    — Aarón Torres, Dallas News, 16 Sep. 2023
  • By law, Abbott does not have the power to pardon Paxton if he’s impeached.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Anchorage Daily News, 27 May 2023
  • Paxton is only the third official to be impeached since Texas became a state in 1845.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But that's not the question that matters for impeaching his father.
    — Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, ABC News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Before Trump was voted out of office, he was impeached twice.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 15 June 2023
  • The House voted 97-0 last month to impeach Goldy, with his conviction requiring the vote of two-thirds of senators present.
    — Andrew Wolfson, The Courier-Journal, 30 Mar. 2023
  • If 50 members of the 99-seat Assembly have voted to impeach, the state Senate must conduct a trial.
    — Molly Beck, Journal Sentinel, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Clinging to the blue district, Valadao was one of only 10 House Republicans to vote to impeach Trump.
    — Paul Rogers, The Mercury News, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Mitch McConnell was trying to get senators to impeach me.
    — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
  • What does impeaching Secretary Mayorkas have to do with fixing the challenges at the border?
    — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Any legislative attempt to impeach Thomas will have to begin in Congress.
    — Aurora Almendral, Quartz, 5 May 2023
  • The past is no guarantee, but the numbers are something to think about if House Republicans decide to impeach Biden.
    — Mark Murray, NBC News, 27 July 2023
  • This idea never got off the ground, however, and Lugo was impeached part way through his term, an act neighboring countries deemed a coup d’etat.
    — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 27 Apr. 2023
  • Days after the insurrection, the House voted to impeach the President, but the Senate then failed to convict him.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2023
  • And petty—just doing it because Donald Trump was impeached.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Right-wing lawmakers have said the ultimate goal is to impeach the president.
    — Luke Broadwater, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Their support spared Trump from conviction after he was impeached over the Capitol attack.
    — David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Knodl has already floated the idea of impeaching Protasiewicz.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Trump also threatened Republicans in Congress who refuse to go along with efforts to impeach Biden.
    — Jill Colvin, Chicago Tribune, 30 July 2023
  • Proceedings start in the state Assembly, where a simple majority must vote to impeach before the state Senate can take it up.
    — Jessie Opoien, Journal Sentinel, 1 Sep. 2023

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