How to Use levy in a Sentence

levy

1 of 2 noun
  • Change the levy, and the rates change.
    — Martha E. Stark, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The levy could be paid over five years.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2026
  • There is no ceiling on the diesel levy.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 16 June 2026
  • Such levies seldom raise as much as hoped.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 27 May 2026
  • If so, these tax levies will apply to their homes.
    — Claire Murphy, Chicago Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Take steps to get rid of your debt and avoid a bank levy today.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 20 Mar. 2026
  • But just how serious is a bank levy?
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • What types of income are exempt from a bank levy?
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Tax levies look to be increasing across the board.
    — Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 23 Dec. 2025
  • General tax levy funds won't be used to fund the project.
    — Claudia Levens, jsonline.com, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Those were some retailers that had been hit hard by the levies.
    — Sean Conlon,pia Singh, CNBC, 19 Feb. 2026
  • But those stopgap levies expire in less than three months.
    — ABC News, 27 Apr. 2026
  • But those stopgap levies expire in less than three months.
    — Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • This process, known as a bank levy, can have a big impact on your finances.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 15 June 2026
  • So what types of income are exempt from being frozen by a bank levy?
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026
  • For cargo, the levy is based on distance travelled and weight.
    — ABC News, 16 Feb. 2026
  • Start by confirming the details of the bank levy.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 7 Apr. 2026
  • The government last month slashed the fuel tax levy.
    — Tiisetso Motsoeneng, semafor.com, 8 May 2026
  • Realize, too, that your tax levy is not static.
    — Lew Sichelman, Miami Herald, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Multiply by the local levy or mill rate.
    — Allison Palmer updated February 20, Kansas City Star, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Kentucky and Utah have reduced levies.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Chicago Tribune, 14 May 2026
  • Kentucky and Utah have reduced levies.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2026
  • Kentucky and Utah have reduced levies.
    — ABC News, 12 May 2026
  • Anything above that threshold, though, may be subject to the levy.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 14 May 2026
  • Tit-for-tat levies reached triple digits on both sides at one point this year, snarling supply chains.
    — Nino Paoli, Fortune, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The levies, though, are not so easily skirted.
    — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 27 Aug. 2025
  • What a levy won't do is resolve the underlying debt on its own.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Last May, voters approved a mill levy hike for a bond issue.
    — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 10 June 2026
  • Milwaukee is not the only city to see a spike in its school district tax levy.
    — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • What most people don't know, though, is that a bank levy is not a blank check for creditors to use.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 2 Apr. 2026

levy

2 of 2 verb
  • They levied a tax on imports.
  • The government will levy a fine on the company.
  • There was no action taken and no fines were levied.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 19 June 2026
  • Four are required to levy taxes.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
  • What happens if your bank account is levied with no money in it?
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Most states also levy their own gas taxes to fund local road projects.
    — Keith Laing, USA Today, 18 May 2026
  • Most states also levy their own gas taxes to fund local road projects.
    — Keith Laing, USA Today, 3 Apr. 2026
  • But those charges were levied on the federal level.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 12 Dec. 2025
  • No fines have been levied so far — or at least none have been reported publicly.
    — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Health-care workers have also levied their share of work stoppages this year.
    — Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Trump pleaded not guilty to all federal charges levied against him.
    — Quinn Scanlan, ABC News, 28 Dec. 2025
  • And more than half the states that levy income taxes reduced their top tax rate.
    — David A. Lieb, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • More than half the state’s counties levy sales taxes for school funding.
    — Charles Selle, Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Instead, tariffs are levied against importers of goods.
    — Bill Koenig, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Ohio has no corporate income tax but does levy a tax on gross receipts.
    — Joe Sonka, The Courier-Journal, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Tariffs are not levied on other countries.
    — Bill Koenig, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • The state of Tennessee does not levy an income tax.
    — Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • However, Texas does not levy a tax on income.
    — Nathan Goldman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Whether voters will levy a political price is far from clear.
    — Chris Kenning, USA Today, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Knight was the one who came out at the end of the match and levied a punishment onto Allin.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 13 June 2026
  • As with many laments of cultural decline, the charge is most often levied by the old against the young.
    — Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 20 July 2023
  • The company did not appear to levy a penalty in the follow up to the note.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 10 Sep. 2025
  • So there is a good chance that the rhetoric is ugly, there are plenty of threats levied, and this thing gets pushed to the brink.
    — Andy McCullough, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2026
  • And then there are the taxes and fees levied by the airports and even state and local governments.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Voters will be asked in June whether to levy a new tax on owners of empty second homes.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2026
  • But customs agents do have some discretion to levy tariffs or not, trade experts said.
    — Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The count restarts in the playoffs, when the league will levy a one-game suspension after seven.
    — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 26 Mar. 2023
  • Criticism that is rarely levied at athletes who speak out in favor of left-wing politicians.
    — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 28 May 2026
  • Ford has levied hundreds of thousands of dollars in fines against its dealers because of the false billings.
    — Detroit Free Press, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Should these tariffs be levied, the impact on patients and the healthcare system will be dire.
    — Wayne Winegarden, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025

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