LEGAL in a Sentence

Learn LEGAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

209 example sentences for LEGAL, such as:

1. His writing has a legal twist about it.
2. He had a deep mistrust of the legal profession.
3. Yes, he is my legal ward and I am responsible for him.
4. It is perfectly legal to charge extra for these services.
5. The lawyer explained the legal technicalities to his client.

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 Meanings and Examples of LEGAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
legal
 a.  created by, permitted by law; according to the law of works
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  And should this happen, she had no legal rights, no legal redress, except those same drumhead courts of which Tony had spoken so bitterly, those military courts with their arbitrary powers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  Yes, he is my legal ward and I am responsible for him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
3  On the green felt of the table-desk, between legal blanks and a clotted inkwell, was a cloissone vase.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
4  I'd put off the Minneapolis trips till I simply had to go there on a lot of legal matters.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
5  You are within your legal rights in refusing to be subjected to this summing-up.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
6  They embarked; and so for ever got the start of their former captain, had he been at all minded to work them legal retribution.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 54. The Town-Ho's Story.
7  Every lawyer learns over and over how strong a motive hate can be, but in my collection of legal anecdotes I had nothing to match this one.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: II
8  Augustine promised Tom his liberty, and began the legal forms necessary to it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
9  Horace Mann, one of the legal counsel for the defendants in that case.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
10  The colored man, by the law of Ohio, cannot be a voter, and, till within a few years, was even denied the right of testimony in legal suits with the white.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
11  His writing has a legal twist about it.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
12  The royal policy had long been to weaken, by every means, legal or illegal, the strength of a part of the population which was justly considered as nourishing the most inveterate antipathy to their victor.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  So the compensation was only three hundred pounds, and they made out as if it was more of a gift than legal compensation, because it was really the man's own fault.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
14  She said she was come back to him and wanted to live with him again, as she was his legal wife, and he wasn't going to divorce her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
15  They then proceeded to take legal steps against my liege lady, who for her part disappeared, having always had a mortal fear of the police.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (146 in 10 pages)
16  He had to go through the usual rigmarole of signing legal papers in order to complete the business deal.
17  It is perfectly legal to charge extra for these services.
18  They faced interminable legal hassles if they wanted to claim compensation.
19  My client accepts the formal apology without prejudice to any further legal action she may decide to take.
20  The lawyer explained the legal technicalities to his client.
21  Out of this fraught legal and financial tangle the bureau worker must work with the client to create order and stability.
22  The legal concept of insanity is of a different nature from the medical.
23  Stronger legal safeguards are needed to protect the consumer.
24  He had a deep mistrust of the legal profession.
25  The families of people who die in custody are in a legal no-man's-land when they try to discover what went wrong.
26  Finally, talk with human resources, employee assistance, medical, legal, training and employee communications people from other companies.
27  We need to establish a legal framework for the protection of the environment.
28  To complicate matters further , differences exist as regards legal systems, trade customs and language.
29  I got myself tied up in knots when I tried to explain the legal system to them.
30  Many legal issues are within the competence of individual states rather than the federal government.