Explore Mandatory through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like territory or district. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Mandatory in a sentence
Mandatory meaning
- obligatory; required or commanded by authority.
- Of, being or relating to a mandate.
Synonyms of Mandatory
Using Mandatory
- The main meaning on this page is: obligatory; required or commanded by authority. | Of, being or relating to a mandate.
- Useful related words include: compulsory, territorial dominion, territory, district.
- In the example corpus, mandatory often appears in combinations such as: the mandatory, mandatory for, for mandatory.
Example sentences (20)
As of now, schooling is not mandatory in Vermont until age 6, even as public schools are required to offer kindergarten to children age 5. But for many parents, child care is mandatory, given that most parents work for a living.
Mandatory retirement: Chevron’s board of directors is considering waiving the company’s mandatory retirement age for Chief Executive Mike Wirth, a move that would allow him to remain CEO for a longer period.
Nearly seven out of ten boats traveled above the speed limit of 11.5 miles per hour, through either mandatory or voluntary slow zones, and one boat traveled as fast as 26.7 miles per hour – more than double the speed limit – within a mandatory slow zone.
In 2024, testing fees for voluntary submissions will be waived for all moose statewide and all deer from hunt codes that were not selected for mandatory testing but are within the same GMUs that were selected for mandatory testing.
Other proposals he thinks would unnecessarily drive up costs are requiring mandatory electric car charging stations in all residential construction, and mandatory air testing for tightness in all duct work.
The average person can just about pay his necessary living expenses after he has paid his mandatory taxes and mandatory insurance.
Those changes include: mandatory drug testing for officers, mandatory body cams worn at all times and severe punishments for officers who turn off body cameras.
Tulane next door had mandatory testing for everyone before school started and will continue to have mandatory tests throughout the semester, weekly for all undergraduates and twice a week for those living on campus.
The Mandatory GIFs of the Week are here with the July Fourth Edition, Mandatory Nation!
Car seats are mandatory under the law for children under 40 pounds, and booster seats are mandatory for children aged seven and under.
A 4.5-inch diameter rod string is used and the cyclone is cleaned at the end of every 6m rod as caking occurs from the mandatory use of dust suppression equipment.
About 20,000 people take the mandatory course each year in order to go look for shed antlers in Utah.
Absences become more noteworthy on May 22 — when coaches and players are on the practice field together for the first time — and on June 13 when three-day mandatory minicamp begins.
A court first found her guilty of failing to declare that she had a U.S. passport, mandatory under Russian law, and fined her.
A daily 6 a.m. swim was mandatory.
Adolph Rupp built Kentucky basketball into a powerhouse and managed to keep his job through various scandals and should’ve-been-scandals, but when he threatened to fight Kentucky’s mandatory retirement age for public employees, he lost.
After completing all mandatory procedures, the evacuated citizens will receive essential legal, medical, and other assistance.
After Kif becomes fed up with Zapp's leadership faults and reports him to the PlayStation high command, the comically problematic Zapp is stripped of his command and forced into mandatory training to adjust his behavior.
Air Force veterans say reservists who volunteer after completing their mandatory military service make up around half of the crews sent on combat sorties.
All but six of the top 25 insurance companies in the Massachusetts market had mandatory wind deductibles, and the largest deductibles were for coastal communities, according to the report.
Common combinations with mandatory
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the mandatory 21×
- mandatory for 13×
- for mandatory 12×
- is mandatory 10×
- and mandatory 9×
- not mandatory 8×
- it mandatory 8×
- of mandatory 7×
- mandatory in 6×
- mandatory retirement 6×