How to Use ratify in a Sentence

ratify

verb

• A number of countries have refused to ratify the treaty.
• Lincoln's home state of Illinois was the first to ratify the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which provided for the abolition of slavery.
• But the Bill of Rights was ratified more than eight years after the Treaty of Paris was signed.
  — Rich Logis, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
• If ratified, the contract would bring on new wages, up to 12 weeks of parental leave and more.
  — Alexandra Skores, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
• The union will vote to ratify the deal, likely next week.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 July 2023
• The 14th Amendment was passed and ratified just after the Civil War.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 11 May 2023
• Once that plan is ratified, the project will be put out to bid, and construction could begin by the end of next year.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2023
• The new contract was ratified last week, putting thousands of people back to work.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• How would Utah women’s lives change if the state ratified the Equal Rights Amendment?
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Aug. 2023
• The strike will end when the studios and the union agree on a new contract, and the majority of union members vote to ratify that contract.
  — Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
• The country is the sixth-highest greenhouse gas emitter in the world and is one of the only countries to not ratify the Paris Agreement.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 30 Jan. 2024
• The vote to ratify the contract is set to be completed by next Wednesday evening.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• The amendment would then have to be ratified by three-fourths of state Legislatures.
  — Sudiksha Kochi, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• The players and team governors still need to ratify the new CBA, so neither side has released the full text yet.
  — Bryan Toporek, Forbes, 1 Apr. 2023
• The deal still needs to be approved by union leadership and ratified by rank-and-file screenwriters in the coming days.
  — Nicole Sperling, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• All the while Orban kept telling them that Hungary would ratify before Turkey, a pledge that’s now soured.
  — Zoltan Simon, Bloomberg.com, 24 Jan. 2024
• Full details of the deal, reached after years of debate and days of marathon talks, have not yet been released, and the plan must still be formally ratified.
  — Karla Adam, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• The deal must still be ratified by a majority vote among union members.
  — Heather Hamilton, Washington Examiner, 8 Nov. 2023
• The new collective bargaining agreement was ratified Wednesday and will take effect at the start of the new league year on July 1.
  — Jim Owczarski, Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2023
• Unionized workers have not yet held votes to ratify the contracts.
  — Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Those workers ratified a union contract (a first at the hotel) in December 2022, and now the Chateau seems hotter than ever.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Dec. 2023
• Although things may be trending back to normal, union members will still have to vote to ratify an agreement, a process that is likely to take at least a week or more.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Nov. 2023
• The treaty is now ratified by 70 nations, but so far by none of the states that possess these potentially world-ending systems.
  — William Hartung, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024
• But the treaty does not come into force until eight key countries including the U.S. ratify the agreement.
  — Mathias Hammer, TIME, 6 Oct. 2023
• The ‘Constitution State’ ratified the founding document 235 years ago – the 5th state to do so.
  — Charles Creitz, Fox News, 16 June 2023
• Dropping ratification of the test ban treaty merely puts it on a par with the U.S., which never ratified the accord.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 2 Nov. 2023
• The contract will not take effect unless a majority of union members vote to ratify it next month.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 27 July 2023
• While any tentative pact would still need to be ratified through a vote by rank-and-file workers to take effect, a handshake agreement would likely forestall a strike.
  — Annie Probert, NBC News, 24 July 2023
• And each year the art stars of the past are ratified and mummified in retrospectives and monographs at museums and art magazines.
  — Jarrett Earnest, The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 2023
• By contrast, the Directors Guild of America has ratified a new three-year contract in a deal reached last month without much drama.
  — William Earl, Variety, 6 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024