How to Use legal in a Sentence

legal

adjective
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  • What you did was not legal.
  • Do you know your legal rights?
  • She has a lot of legal problems.
  • The referee said it was a legal play.
  • The amount of alcohol in his blood exceeded the legal limit.
  • For starters, polygamy is not legal in the state of Arizona.
    — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 14 Apr. 2019
  • Some have backed down from their claims in the face of threats of legal action.
    — Olivia Rubin, ABC News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • The new rule also opens the door for a fresh round of legal challenges.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • So far no one has been able to show me how this is legal.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 12 May 2020
  • But for now, the procedure still is legal in the state.
    — Rachel Fradette, USA TODAY, 2 July 2022
  • To be honest with you, a lot of it with the rule changes is not legal anymore.
    — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 14 May 2020
  • Though the loophole is legal, it’s mostly used by the rich.
    — Quartz, 24 Oct. 2022
  • With lots of cash on hand, Google is digging in for a long legal fight.
    — The Economist, 22 Oct. 2020
  • As of now, there are no plans to take legal action to stop it, sources say.
    — Dan Rys, Billboard, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Last fall, the Supreme Court refused to hear a legal challenge to the 2020 state law that raised the threshold.
    — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Congress should ensure that the same is true of cannabis in states where the drug is legal.
    — Ilya Shapiro, National Review, 10 July 2019
  • Some of it has to do with betting on games now legal in many states.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
  • If the changes are adopted, cannabis will be legal in the state by July 1st.
    — Ryan Bort, Rolling Stone, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Trump’s legal team will then get 24 hours as well, parceled out in the same manner.
    — Brian Barrett, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
  • For the past few years, Johna has been fighting a legal battle of her own.
    — Longreads, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The squatters, of course, possess no legal rights at all.
    — Elliott Abrams, National Review, 11 May 2021
  • The legal world has taken note of Melody's foster case.
    — Arizona Republic, 25 May 2020
  • Physicians may not know what is legal, or for how long.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 2 July 2022
  • The fate of those funds now depends on a complex legal process that will take months to unfold.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • The gap raises red flags for Bryant, the Title IX legal expert.
    — oregonlive, 22 July 2023
  • Among cost-saving moves, the district cut down on legal fees.
    — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
  • That’s good news for an outlaw distiller who’d like to be legal one day.
    — Kathy Stephenson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Apr. 2021
  • But there no longer would be the legal hammer requiring them to do so.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
  • The fictional uber-rich of New York have a lot of flaws—not to mention legal troubles.
    — Abrigail Williams, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2023
  • But that didn’t end the chaos, confusion and legal battles.
    — latimes.com, 11 July 2018

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