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How to use amended in a sentence

18 example sentences · adjective

Amended means that has been modified from a previous form. Example: “We voted on the amended bill, and it passed.”

Examples of amended by meaning

adjectiveThat has been modified from a previous form.

  • We voted on the amended bill, and it passed.
  • An amended GFDL followed in 2002, which added several new definitional provisions to the license and made a few changes to the language of the license conditions.2010, Timothy K. Armstrong, Shrinking the Commons: Termination of Copyright Licenses and Transfers for the Benefit of the Public, II. Open...

More sentences with amended

  • We amended the rules so that we could admit 20 more members to the club.From the entry amend
  • The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, frequently amended, remains an important weapon in the federal government's antihacker arsenal.From the entry antihacker
  • Please find attached the amended employment contract.From the entry please find attached
  • DHS later amended its claims to reflect that only one person was in the van.2026 February 17, Aaron Blake, “The many claims by Trump’s DHS that have fallen apart”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2026. From the entry Anne Arundel County
  • Antimargarine laws were amended and enacted at the state and federal levels over the intervening years.1997, Kenneth W Bailey, Marketing and pricing of milk and dairy products in the United States. From the entry antimargarine
  • Woodruff tried to "unstrike" her answer by filing an amended one.1987, West's South Western Reporter - Volume 721, page 870. From the entry unstrike
  • The securities laws and nonsecurities laws of the states are established and amended by each state's law-making body and governor.2011, Patrick S. Collins, Regulation of Securities, Markets, and Transactions: A Guide to the New Environment, page 228. From the entry nonsecurities
  • “I'm sorry I jumped on you — jumped down your throat,” he amended, feeling like a complete idiot.2009, Shiela Stewart, Embracing the Darkness: Darkness Series, Book 3, page 59. From the entry jump down someone's throat
  • I would see this war end before my reign does.” The royal we was gone again, but he amended the breach as he continued.2020, Christopher Ruocchio, Demon in White (The Sun Eater; 3), New York, N.Y.: DAW Books, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry royal we
  • It also rerepeals a Section that was amended by an Act of the 87th General Assembly after it was repealed by an internal repealer.1991, Laws of the State of Illinois Enacted by the General Assembly at the Extra Session. From the entry rerepeal
  • Regulative censorships can be amended or revolutionized in ways that raise or lower bodycounts, numbers of books banned or citizens ghettoed or gulaged.1988, Sue Curry Jansen, Censorship: The Knot that Binds Power and Knowledge (Communication and Society), New York, N.Y.; Oxford…. From the entry gulag
  • The Commission amended its previously issued Order 19, reëvaluating the needs of the various services on the grounds of public interest, convenience and necessity.1939, QST., Volume 23, page #24 (American Radio Relay League). From the entry reëvaluating
  • An amended memorial to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë was unveiled on Thursday with added diaereses (two dots) that ensure people pronounce it with two syllables.2024 September 26, Mark Brown, “Brontë sisters finally get their dots as names corrected at Westminster Abbey”, in Katharine Viner…. From the entry diaeresis
  • The penalty provisions in a number of Acts containing commonly occurring offences were amended to specify the fine in penalty units rather than a specific sum.2002, Kate Warner, Sentencing in Tasmania, page 124. From the entry penalty unit
  • The suit never went through the courts because the trigger pricing was amended to include wire fencing as a product to be subject to trigger pricing.1983, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways, Means. Subcommittee on Trade, Options to Improve the Trade Remedy Laws: Hearings…. From the entry trigger pricing
  • In February, Skip Daly, a Democrat in the Nevada State Assembly, introduced a bill to make involuntary microchip implants illegal; he later amended it to include voluntary microchipping as well.2019 May 21, Zoltan Istvan, “A Chip in My Hand Unlocks My House. Why Does That Scare People?”, in The New York Times. From the entry microchip

Meaning of amended

  1. adjective That has been modified from a previous form.

Full definition of amended

Questions about amended in a sentence

How do you use amended in a sentence?
Amended is used as an adjective. For example: “We voted on the amended bill, and it passed.”
What is a short sentence with amended?
“Please find attached the amended employment contract.”
What does amended mean?
Amended means that has been modified from a previous form.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amended (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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