How to Use reform in a Sentence

reform

1 of 2 verb
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  • The laws need to be reformed.
  • The program is designed to help former gang members who are trying to reform.
  • They want to reform campaign spending.
  • The program is designed to reform prisoners.
  • There have been many attempts to reform both the CDM and the voluntary market.
    — Jessica F. Green, Foreign Affairs, 20 Nov. 2023
  • Still, the reformed family man wasn’t always on the straight and narrow path.
    — Alex Ross, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • His parents for years have pushed lawmakers and the Navy to reform the selection course.
    — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Towns and cities in the same metro areas that did not reform zoning laws generally saw faster rent growth.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
  • The question at this point is whether City Hall is capable of reforming itself.
    — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
  • Zack de la Rocha left the band, and the remaining members reformed with Chris Cornell as Audioslave.
    — Vulture, 3 Jan. 2024
  • Near the top of the to-do list should be reforming the well-intentioned, but poorly designed, 340B drug discount program.
    — Wayne Winegarden, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2023
  • On the other hand, Comet the reindeer (voiced by Paul Kligman), never reforms his bullying ways.
    — Mike Miller, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Newsom is pushing his own plan to reform the state’s mental health system.
    — Tran Nguyen, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2023
  • Biden’s age is a hot-button media topic, as is his handling of the war in the Middle East, as are his efforts to reform the border, etc., etc., etc.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Munger also frequently made clear his views on the importance of good managers—and the fact that bad managers aren’t worth the trouble of trying to reform.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The new deal brings a windfall of cash to the burgeoning league, which was reformed in 2012 from the remnants of the defunct Women’s Professional Soccer league.
    — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Use them for seven days to renew the skin, or use for 28 days to completely reform the surface and reduce the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.
    — Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 26 Nov. 2023
  • More than 40 states have passed laws during the past five years to reform reading instruction to be more aligned with cognitive research.
    — Theara Coleman, theweek, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Newsom said the first-in-the-nation effort could provide a model to help reform the justice system on a broader level.
    — Dustin Gardiner, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Mar. 2023
  • But Price, the director, believed the Robbins musical had the potential to be reformed.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Schiff worked across the aisle to reform the Patriot Act and end its warrantless wiretapping program.
    — Cameron Joseph, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Yet the movement to reform police has effectively stalled.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • Influences of Israeli folk dance and clubbing propel the nine dancers to tumble over one another, forming and reforming groups of two, three, and four.
    — Catherine Tharin, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • The Taliban had won, and the American envoys anxious to end an unpopular war said the hardliners had reformed.
    — Fariba Nawa, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Molloy recommended that Holden use his lengthy prison time to be productive and reform his ways.
    — Annasofia Scheve, The Enquirer, 17 July 2023
  • Changing the culture in this court, reforming bail policy, and trying more cases.
    — James Hartley, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 Feb. 2024
  • It’s been another year of glacially slow progress for attempts to reform how streaming remuneration works in the U.K. biz.
    — Mark Sutherland, Variety, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Despite working to reform Virginia’s mental health system for years, Deeds has never been to therapy for his own tragedy.
    — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2023
  • The bill would reform the state’s system for selling delinquent property taxes.
    — Lizzie Kane, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2023
  • The issue is front and center in city discussions around homelessness, which is adding a degree of urgency to the onerous process of reforming zoning codes.
    — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 8 May 2023
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reform

2 of 2 noun
  • A group of senators are calling for reform of the nation's health-care system.
  • He has proposed a list of political reforms.
  • The answer is tough love and reform, not more handouts.
    — Joe Pitts, National Review, 23 Dec. 2023
  • Vollmer’s reforms of a hundred years ago are the LAPD’s scaffolding to this day.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • The creamy duo smooths down cuticles and reforms split ends with squalane — the very lipid that routine abuse strips away.
    — Liana Schaffner, Allure, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Hope springs eternal, and there’s a compelling new call for reform.
    — James Freeman, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The new battalion was formed as a product of the military reforms in May 2022.
    — Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 17 June 2023
  • The City Council is expected to put a reform proposal on the ballot in 2024.
    — Caroline Petrow-Cohen, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The 2024 state legislative season may see at least a dozen states enact reforms.
    — Stanley Goldfarb, National Review, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The bill comes a few years after a wave of ambitious police reform legislation passed in the state in 2021.
    — CBS News, 22 Jan. 2024
  • That seems unlikely to happen, but the push for Supreme Court ethics reform will continue.
    — Joel Mathis, The Week, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Captains of capital were still outraged and launched a war to roll back New Deal reforms, arguably up until the present day.
    — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Since the death of George Floyd, a national movement promised sweeping justice reform.
    — Kelley Manley, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2024
  • Propelled by Deng’s reforms, the Chinese economy by 2010 had displaced Japan’s as the world’s second largest.
    — Win McCormack, The New Republic, 23 June 2023
  • At the time, the 2016 law was hailed as an important bipartisan reform to close a glaring loophole in the Kansas Open Records Act.
    — Jonathan Shorman, Kansas City Star, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The atypical rash of inmate deaths led to a drumbeat of protests and calls for reform by civil rights and social justice groups as well as the Louisville Metro Council.
    — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 29 May 2023
  • Schiff and Lee were both members of Congress when Obamacare, the most significant health care reform in decades, was written and passed in 2010.
    — Lindsey Holden, Sacramento Bee, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The first time, in September, 2022, voters rejected a left-wing reform in a landslide.
    — Graciela Mochkofsky, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2024
  • A lot of people are sympathetic to the idea of a union and reform of reality TV but are skeptical about your role in all of this.
    — Meredith Blake, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2023
  • These reforms, however, have done little to slow the region’s hospice boom.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Still, sweeping and long-term reforms are expected to remain a challenge.
    — Kelly Puente, USA TODAY, 28 July 2023
  • Rankin was a lifelong pacifist who campaigned for social and electoral reform.
    — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But for others who are far behind, a genuine package of reforms must be introduced.
    — David Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Meanwhile, Live Nation has been moving forward with its own reforms.
    — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 July 2023
  • Those who oppose the reforms say that these are detrimental to the country’s democracy and will remove the courts’ ability to check and balance the powers of the government.
    — Hilary Tetenbaum, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
  • After 10 months, Swift’s U.S. tour is finished, but so are most of the meaningful reforms consumer advocates and industry groups had hoped to pass this year.
    — Adam Beam, Fortune, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, the entire winners pool was white, despite a major reform in 2020 to ensure more diversity in the acting categories and for the award for best British film.
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 19 Feb. 2024
  • Netanyahu and his supporters say the courts were in need of reform, his opponents have described the move as an assault on Israel’s democracy.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
  • Or marching on May Day for workers rights and immigration reform.
    — Reed Johnson, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • On Tuesday, the city began a series of public meetings detailing its efforts to comply with the DOJ and some of the reforms the police have undergone.
    — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024

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