RATIFY in a Sentence
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12 example sentences for RATIFY, such as:
1. President Corazon Aquino had appealed to the Senate to ratify the agreement.
2. My aunt said this in a sprightly way, and gave me a kiss to ratify the blessing.
3. Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty of friendship by giving me one of her best hugs.
4. As Ashley had prophesied, there had been hell to pay since the legislature refused to ratify the amendment.
5. Party leaders doubted that they had enough votes in both houses of Congress to ratify the constitutional amendment.
2. My aunt said this in a sprightly way, and gave me a kiss to ratify the blessing.
3. Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty of friendship by giving me one of her best hugs.
4. As Ashley had prophesied, there had been hell to pay since the legislature refused to ratify the amendment.
5. Party leaders doubted that they had enough votes in both houses of Congress to ratify the constitutional amendment.
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Meanings and Examples of RATIFY
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ratify
v. approve and express assent, responsibility, or obligation
Classic Sentence:
1 Peggotty was not slow to respond, and ratify the treaty of friendship by giving me one of her best hugs.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
2 My aunt said this in a sprightly way, and gave me a kiss to ratify the blessing.
3 "They've flatly refused to ratify the amendment," said Grandpa Merriwether and there was pride in his voice.
4 As Ashley had prophesied, there had been hell to pay since the legislature refused to ratify the amendment.
5 If, however, the Emperor of Russia ratifies that convention, I will ratify it; but it is only a trick.
6 It had come to be accepted that the pigs, who were manifestly cleverer than the other animals, should decide all questions of farm policy, though their decisions had to be ratified by a majority vote.
7 Matters being thus amicably and satisfactorily arranged, the contract was solemnly ratified in another teacupful of the peppermint mixture; which was rendered the more necessary, by the flutter and agitation of the lady's spirits.
8 There had been a Thirteenth Amendment ratified sometime before or maybe it had been the Sixteenth Amendment but what ratification meant she had no idea.
Example Sentence:
1 President Putin has said that Russia has not yet decided whether to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the treaty aimed at reducing global warming.
2 Party leaders doubted that they had enough votes in both houses of Congress to ratify the constitutional amendment.
3 President Corazon Aquino had appealed to the Senate to ratify the agreement.
4 Although Israel ratified The Fourth Geneva Convention in 1951, it disputes the validity of the Convention in the occupied territories.