How to Use postpone in a Sentence

postpone

verb
  • The baseball game was postponed until tomorrow because of rain.
  • The event was postponed due to the Davis wildfires last month.
    — Annabella Rosciglione, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 3 Oct. 2024
  • The death prompted her to postpone one of her Rio shows.
    — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2023
  • There are plans to postpone the event but a date has not been set.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The dates will be postponed and rescheduled, the country star told fans in the glum video.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 9 May 2023
  • The 49th edition of the event had been set for June 10 before it was postponed due to the writers strike.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Due to heavy rain and lightning in the area, the game was postponed at halftime for more than an hour.
    — Braidon Nourse, The Denver Post, 21 July 2024
  • McAfee agreed to postpone that deadline to Feb. 1 for Meadows and Clark.
    — Kate Brumback The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The vote was scheduled for Friday but has been postponed to next week.
    — Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2024
  • Malik also postponed his tour dates in light of the tragedy.
    — Caroline Frost, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2024
  • The Glasgow, Belfast, and Dublin shows are being postponed.
    — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Healthy Kids Running Series had to postpone runs as its track has been a swamp.
    — Sam Boyer, cleveland, 6 May 2022
  • Beatrice postponed college for a year and remained with us through the fall.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
  • His next project, Disney+’s Knock-Off, has announced it has been postponed.
    — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • In 2021, a League Two game with Stevenage was postponed after a part of the roof flew off during a storm.
    — Simon Hughes, The Athletic, 20 Dec. 2024
  • At the signal, Thoms pulled so hard the oar broke, forcing officials to postpone the team’s heat.
    — Kim O'Connell, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2022
  • Marvel won’t have to postpone the release date or have the film swap places with The Marvels, as had been rumored.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 13 Mar. 2022
  • This year, because of the actors and writers strikes, the Globes are airing ahead of the Emmys, which were postponed to Jan. 15.
    — Jake Coyle, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Several Blink-182 shows were postponed and Barker briefly left the tour to be with his wife.
    — Chloe Melas, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2023
  • But it was postponed until April 2024 amid the writers and actors strikes last year.
    — Hilary Lewis, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
  • The court date was postponed because Karelina did not have a lawyer.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The speaker can postpone some votes for up to two legislative days under the House rules.
    — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The men’s was scheduled for Tuesday but was postponed to Wednesday.
    — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The game was briefly paused and quickly resumed, but soon after, the referee postponed the game.
    — Ryan Morik, Fox News, 4 June 2023
  • Farage wrote in a statement on Twitter that the tour is not canceled, only postponed.
    — Miles J. Herszenhorn, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • Remember how that strange bout of rain at the beginning of May forced a couple of events to postpone?
    — Sal Pizarro, The Mercury News, 1 June 2024
  • The priests, however, postponed their holy bath until later in the day.
    — Aakash Hassan, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Jan. 2025
  • San Diego schools postponed the first day of classes from today to Tuesday.
    — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Francis had planned to have an audience with Charles, but the official state visit to the Vatican was postponed due to the pope’s health.
    — Giada Zampano, Chicago Tribune, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Their trial, originally set for next week, has been postponed until July.
    — Andrea Tinianow, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025

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