How to Use constitutionally in a Sentence

constitutionally

adverb
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  • I'm afraid that I'm constitutionally incapable of carrying a tune.
  • That conduct is very close to the line and very much over the line to what is constitutionally allowed.
    — Omari Daniels, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
  • All of this is to say that Donald Trump is, constitutionally speaking, just a guy.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2022
  • But should that give him the right to run for reelection, something that’s constitutionally banned?
    — Nelson Mauricio Rauda Zablah, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Jan. 2024
  • But Fox, a constitutionally speedy person, also speaks of learning how to be still within his life, to slow down, look around.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2023
  • As a result, Congress has established the Supreme Court, which is the highest court of the land, seating nine members since 1869 but not constitutionally bound to that number.
    — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2022
  • For the constitutionally morbid, such as Leopold, nowhere can outgloom Venice.
    — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2023
  • The federal court’s pledge Wednesday to order use of the third set of constitutionally flawed maps is not an ideal solution.
    — Robert Higgs, cleveland, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Plates, cups, books, bodies, and all the rest are too small, not contingently, but constitutionally.
    — Elizabeth Barber, Harper's Magazine, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Although Sharif does not constitutionally have to hold elections until August, millions taking to the street may force his hand.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 4 Nov. 2022
  • But some are opposed, fearing the new law is a constitutionally questionable reaction to a single case that could lead to more death sentences.
    — Dakin Andone, CNN, 14 Apr. 2023
  • The Senate had been waiting on the House to move first to avoid any parliamentary challenges since spending bills are constitutionally required to originate in the House.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Nonetheless, at some near point in time, the eviction moratorium will no longer be constitutionally sustainable and will have to come to an end.
    — Jay Adkisson, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2021
  • Lasso is now constitutionally required to call new elections within the next six months.
    — Diego Lasarte, Quartz, 17 May 2023
  • So much the better if the speech is not only constitutionally protected, but also true, or partly true, in an area where the authorities were wrong.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 16 July 2021
  • The nation's presidency is constitutionally required to be made up of a Croat, a Bosniak, and a Serb — currently Dodik.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Their speech might end up being constitutionally protected – just not by the First Amendment.
    — Frank Lomonte, The Conversation, 21 July 2021
  • Napoleon, the very model of the nineteenth-century autocrat, ruled constitutionally and by plebiscite, however rigged the voting might have been.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 16 May 2022
  • The current president, Hassan Rouhani, who took office in 2013, is constitutionally barred from seeking a third term.
    — Aresu Eqbali, WSJ, 25 May 2021
  • Lawmakers are constitutionally required to pass a balanced budget before July 1, the start of the new fiscal year, or state services begin to shut down.
    — Jessie Van Berkel, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • But one justice said the law was constitutionally questionable and should be reconsidered in a future case.
    — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Like so many things about Trump’s voyage in public life, this one is constitutionally uncharted waters.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
  • While the legal mechanism to exclude Cawthorn is constitutionally valid, the factual basis may not be.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 24 Feb. 2022
  • In a filing on Wednesday, lawyers for Hobbs said the court should not take up Price's appeal because the state is not currently prepared to carry out an execution in a constitutionally sound manner.
    — Elizabeth Pritchett, Fox News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Even Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had issues constitutionally – the right to privacy versus the right to equal protection under the law.
    — NBC News, 7 Aug. 2022
  • And the concurrence says that long-standing gun laws are constitutionally permissible, but that’s what the majority says as well.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 23 June 2022
  • That group has been able to get laws enacted, including ones enabling open carry, that are not constitutionally required.
    — Matt Seaton, The New York Review of Books, 3 Apr. 2021
  • Again, as the coalition 1Sambayan notes, all this seems constitutionally questionable.
    — William Pesek, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • He is fired from a local taxi firm, in part for being constitutionally unable to leave his passengers in peace, and then from a bakery, for defending an Asian colleague from a racist superior.
    — The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2022
  • Most of that money is constitutionally protected and cannot be spent, but about $9.3 billion is uncommitted and available.
    — James Brooks, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Aug. 2021

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