How to Use comport with in a Sentence

comport with

phrasal verb
Definition of comport withnext
  • Separating the two cases would seem to comport with Boulware’s wishes.
    — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 31 July 2024
  • Or the time he was asked to check his overcoat to comport with a restaurant’s dress code.
    — Sam Roberts, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Would that even comport with their own perspective of their lives?
    — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 25 July 2023
  • The three Colorado dissenters, including the chief justice, thought that their court should not reach the issue, and that the five-day trial did not comport with due process of law.
    — The Editors, National Review, 20 Dec. 2023
  • There were large inheritance tax payments and loans against their LG shares that didn’t comport with their understanding that Kwang-mo alone would shoulder the tax.
    — Victoria Kim, New York Times, 18 Dec. 2023
  • But this ruling does not comport with U.S. obligations under human rights law.
    — Laura Pitter, Foreign Affairs, 23 Aug. 2016
  • Trump appears to believe that his support for a tariff on Chinese goods comports with his hopes for improved relations with Beijing.
    — Mira Rapp-Hooper, Foreign Affairs, 22 Nov. 2016
  • If that doesn’t comport with your recollection of the pandemic, don’t worry about your memory.
    — The Editors, National Review, 1 June 2023
  • That may comport with macro data saying inflation is slowing, but price increases are still felt by consumers.
    — Anthony Salvanto, Fred Backus, Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News, 30 July 2023
  • The Supreme Court will also weigh whether a 30-year-old law that bars people subject to domestic violence protection orders from having guns comports with the Second Amendment.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 7 July 2023
  • That doesn’t comport with our expectations of how humans work versus how AI automaton works.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
  • To put it in terms each candidate for chief justice understands, her dark fate does not comport with contemporary standards of decency.
    — Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2024
  • The committee’s job is only to make sure that regulations comport with the legislation that authorized them.
    — Yash Roy, Hartford Courant, 17 Jan. 2024
  • And if Chair Khan believes that trial losses will move Congress to change the law to comport with her vision of antitrust, litigation certainly isn’t the right tool for communicating a policy idea to Congress.
    — Martha Coakley, Fortune, 13 Dec. 2023
  • This comports with my understanding, even as a latecomer to technology.
    — Will Stephenson, Harper's Magazine, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In response, California and other liberal states scrambled to devise new gun laws that comported with Bruen enough to survive new legal challenges.
    — Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2024
  • But otherwise, Washington must give partner governments the space to define their relationships with China in ways that comport with their interests and local realities.
    — Jude Blanchette, Foreign Affairs, 24 July 2023
  • The high court is tasked with weighing two questions: whether the laws' content-moderation restrictions comply with the First Amendment and whether their individualized-explanation requirements comport with the constitution.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 29 Sep. 2023
  • JetBlue would also revamp the Spirit jetliners’ interiors to comport with JetBlue’s seating arrangements.
    — David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024

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