How to Use uphold in a Sentence

uphold

verb
  • They have a responsibility to uphold the law.
  • He took an oath to uphold the Constitution.
  • The Court of Appeals upheld his conviction.
  • The law was challenged in the US Supreme Court and upheld in 2020.
    — Jamiel Lynch, CNN, 31 Jan. 2024
  • It was upheld by the courts at the tail end of Trump’s first term.
    — Nicole Nixon, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Deputy Shirley answered the call to keep all of us safe and uphold the law.
    — Mary Ramsey, The Courier-Journal, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Instead, the court ruled against her and upheld the ban.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 27 Jan. 2024
  • The monarch swears an oath to uphold both the law and the Church of England, and the Archbishop anoints the monarch with holy oil.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • The judges also upheld the FDA's approval of the generic version of the drug in 2019.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In March, the state Court of Appeals upheld the 2022 ruling, making way for the case to move to the state's highest court.
    — Madeline Heim, Journal Sentinel, 11 Sep. 2024
  • But the Texas law, and the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold it, have brought the topic back to the forefront of the campaign.
    — Grace Segers, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2021
  • At the same time, the court upheld a Ten Commandments marker in Austin, Texas.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff, Arkansas Online, 21 June 2025
  • That decision was upheld by the Supreme Court last year.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • But, in February, the Supreme Court of Georgia upheld the vote, and home rule.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2023
  • The state is calling on the Supreme Court to uphold the gestational age ban.
    — Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2021
  • Two of the three Appeals Court judges ruled to uphold the conviction.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 1 Dec. 2023
  • The decision to uphold the ban dealt a blow to advocates who spoke at the meeting.
    — Gregory Thomas, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2022
  • She was told that the prenuptial agreement was going to be upheld.
    — Andrea Mandell, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Maryland Democrats countered that the case was about upholding the rule of law.
    — Jeff Barker, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2023
  • And so, any court ruling on whether to uphold or strike down the map would come sometime after that.
    — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The two form a connection, expressed through music, that will, by turns, haunt them and uphold them the rest of their days.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 21 Feb. 2023
  • In the face of such arguments, the supervisors held firm and upheld their vote to cut the Boswell levee.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 28 Sep. 2023
  • Jackson scored on a third-and-goal play that was upheld after a review.
    — Matt Jones, arkansasonline.com, 22 Sep. 2024
  • The city council upheld Crowley's firing by a vote of 13-2.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 4 Mar. 2025
  • The supreme court could uphold his conviction or send his case back to trial.
    — al, 26 Dec. 2021
  • The Supreme Court could uphold his conviction or send his case back to trial.
    — Howard Koplowitz | [email protected], al, 1 Mar. 2022
  • The court was set up in 1959 to uphold human-rights laws on the continent after the Second World War.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 17 June 2022
  • And of the few cases the Supreme Court does take up, most result in the state court conviction being upheld, Collins said.
    — Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 3 June 2024
  • After a state appeals court upheld the initial decision early last month, the Indiana Supreme Court on Feb. 19 overturned the prior rulings and struck down the order to stop work.
    — Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld a law that gives more power over death penalty cases to the attorney general's office.
    — Evan Mealins, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025

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