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How to use enact in a sentence

40 example sentences · verb

Enact means to make (a bill) into law. Example: “The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.”

Examples of enact by meaning

verbTo make (a bill) into law.

  • The practical effect of the Government's new anti-strike bill on the rail disputes in Great Britain is awaited, after the legislation was enacted.2023 December 27, Mel Holley, “Network News: Minimum Service Levels legislation comes into force”, in RAIL, number 999, page 14

More sentences with enact

  • The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.From the entry sanction
  • Many politicians prefer to grandstand on hot-button issues rather than enact tough policy changes.From the entry grandstand
  • Saying "I do" as part of a wedding ceremony is performative, enacting a marriage.From the entry performative
  • The legislature enacted an omnibus appropriations bill.From the entry omnibus
  • The government has enacted an immutable law.From the entry immutable
  • That year, secession was enacted on account of unreasonable policies.From the entry secession
  • The government has enacted a good many reforms.From the entry a good many
  • The government has enacted a good few important reforms.From the entry a good few
  • In response to the international communist movement, the Peace Preservation Law was enacted to criminalize attempts to change the Japanese kokutai.From the entry kokutai
  • Thirteen Indiana counties have enacted data center moratoriums, including Fulton, Marshall and Starke counties.2026 July 18, Michelle L. Quinn, “Merrillville council extends data center moratorium by 6 months”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the…. From the entry Valparaiso
  • The dyes portion of the West Virginia law will be enacted in schools beginning August 1.2025 March 29, Kristen Rogers, “Over half of US states are trying to eliminate food dyes. Here’s what you can do now”, in CNN, archived…. From the entry West Virginia
  • Lawmakers in Congress were clearly aware of that when they enacted IEEPA with that same language.2025 November 4, John Fritze, “What to watch for as the Supreme Court reviews Trump’s sweeping global tariffs”, in CNN, archived from the…. From the entry contemporaneously
  • If such a pause cannot be enacted quickly, governments should step in and institute a moratorium.2023 March 22, “Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter”, in Future of Life Institute. From the entry moratorium
  • It said such slogans are illegal under a newly enacted national security law.2020 September 6, “Hong Kong police arrest 289 at protests over election delay”, in The Washington Post, Associated Press, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry pro-
  • His goal, he emphatically clarified, was to enact “an anti-discrimination bill,” “not a bathroom bill.”2020, Alexander K. Davis, Bathroom Battlegrounds: How Public Restrooms Shape the Gender Order, University of California Press, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry bathroom bill
  • Safety programs have targeted parents and children, and laws requiring seat belt use have been enacted.2020, Edward P. Sarafino, Timothy W. Smith, David B. King, Anita De Longis, Health Psychology: Biopsychosocial Interactions, Wiley, →ISBN…. From the entry infant safety seat
  • The poem thematizes more than it enacts entropology, a contemplation of materials in process over time.2018, Angela Hume, Gillian Osborne, Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field, →ISBN, page 83. From the entry entropology
  • He could reinstate the cycle of chosen births, or enact any of a hundred other terrible laws.”2017, J. C. Staudt, Children of the Wastes. From the entry maniac
  • It is more aptly described as a context: masculinity as enacted by people with transgender identities.2014, Tommaso M. Milani, Language and Masculinities: Performances, Intersections, Dislocations, Routledge, →ISBN, page 197. From the entry transmasculinity
  • Why the rigmarole of a military survey before enacting a measure most Americans already favoured?2010 October 14, “An own goal on gay rights”, in The Economist. From the entry overlearn
  • The government used something called the salami technique—discrimination enacted one thin slice at a time.2008, James R. Norton, The Holocaust: Jews, Germany, and the National…. From the entry salami technique
  • What type of democracy enacts humanicide to attempt to save humanity?2008, Christopher Ejsmond -, Reflections on Life, page 64. From the entry humanicide
  • 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
  • The self may enact its distress as well as explain it, but the enactment can be misconstrued.1982, David C. Taylor, “The Components of Sickness: Diseases, Illnesses and Predicaments”, in John Apley, Christopher Ounsted, editors…. From the entry rôle-playing
  • The East Carolina legislature has enacted a statute that bars negligence claims for injuries caused during horse riding lessons.2016, Michael H. Hoffheimer, Examples & Explanations for Conflict of Laws, →ISBN. From the entry West Carolina
  • Central to the activity of cosplay is elaborate costuming, though some cosplays are enacted using a game system.2010, Sarah Lynne Bowman, “Historical Evolution and Cultural Permutations”, in The Functions of Role-Playing Games […], Jefferson, N.C.…. From the entry cosplay
  • Enlightened ministers like Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and Karl August von Hardenberg enacted a comprehensive series of domestic reforms.2005, Robert M. Citino, “‘Disgrace and Redemption’: The Prussian Army in the Napoleonic Wars”, in The German Way of War: From the Thirty…. From the entry emancipate
  • It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 216. From the entry coppice
  • A uniform marriage and divorce law must be drastically enacted by the Central Government and rigidly administrated by the higher courts.1933, The China Critic, volume 6, page 428. From the entry drastically
  • Seldom have democratic principles been so drastically enacted into law.1928, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 141, page 558. From the entry drastically
  • Congress never enacts a measure which is believed to oppose public opinion;—your Congressman keeps his ear to the ground.1903, Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Disfranchisement of the Negro”, in The Negro Problem. From the entry ear to the ground
  • Their supporters marched for everything from ending nuclear power to enacting gay rights — while maintaining the key plank of environmental protection.2025 February 24, Rina Goldenberg, “A guide to Germany's political parties”, in Deutsche Welle. From the entry plank
  • Among the proposed responses to these problems are to “reshore” or “friend-shore” production and to enact “industrial policies to increase country capacities to produce”.2022 June 1, Joseph Stiglitz, “Davos 2022 meeting was a missed opportunity over globalisation”, in The Guardian. From the entry reshore
  • At the age of 20, these guys are conscious of their position of influence and they want to use it to enact positive change.2018 April 29, Juliana Piskorz, “‘We’re Top Gear for clothes’: the guys behind PAQ”, in The Guardian. From the entry sith
  • But both works also enact an aesthetic shared by fans of low Eurohorror — a tendency toward excess, syncopated rhythms, and surreal frame compositions.2008, Ernest Mathijs, Xavier Mendik, The Cult Film Reader, page 184. From the entry Eurohorror
  • The free-willed subject here is the subject formation enacted by the party who is going to be visited with a fortunate (or unfortunate) legal consequence.1998, Pierre Schlag, Laying Down the Law: Mysticism, Fetishism, and the American Legal Mind. From the entry willed
  • But I have never seen a mixed environment where gay male eroticism and straight female eroticism could be enacted simultaneously, and as the same thing.1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 11. From the entry unimplemented
  • Neighbours enact their substantive noun when there′s a neighbour′s sickness in the night; as friends do theirs, the cindered and the green times through.1973, Ernest Buckler, Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea, page 126. From the entry neighbour
  • It is not conceived as a mere “aping” in externals nor as an enacting in the sense of assuming a foreign role.1961, J. A. Philip, “Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato,”, in Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, volume…. From the entry ape

Meaning of enact

  1. verb To make (a bill) into law.
  2. verb To act the part of; to play.
  3. verb To do; to effect.

Full definition of enact

Questions about enact in a sentence

How do you use enact in a sentence?
Enact is used as a verb. For example: “The United States enacted a new round of sanctions against the apartheid regime of South Africa.”
What is a short sentence with enact?
“The government has enacted an immutable law.”
What does enact mean?
Enact means to make (a bill) into law.

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