How to Use curfew in a Sentence

curfew

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  • No one is allowed on the streets during the curfew.
  • The town was placed under curfew.
  • The teens were stopped by police for violating the curfew.
  • The city ordered a curfew soon after the rioting started.
  • He has a 10 o'clock curfew.
  • The city went as far as to impose a curfew last weekend, for the third year in a row.
    — Claire Pedersen, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The cat did not fall for the trap before the volunteers left to beat a 10 p.m. curfew.
    — Karin Brulliard and Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • The app doesn’t have a curfew, so a teen could take a trip in the middle of the night without parental consent.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The city declared a state of emergency and put a curfew in place.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Last year, two shootings on Ocean Drive led the city to set a midnight curfew.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • On the fourth night of the protests, Evans and a group of cops were pursuing a rowdy crowd flouting the city’s curfew.
    — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The youth has been in the care of his mother, with GPS monitoring and a curfew.
    — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • There's checkpoints, police stops and checks you, and curfew lifts at 5:00 in the morning.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The actors and their audience didn’t have much time to mill around: curfew was at eleven.
    — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The judge said the county is planning on implementing a curfew for the area.
    — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 May 2023
  • The curfew, officials explained, lasts six hours, from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., and the head of the household has to wear a GPS monitor.
    — Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The girls have rules at Charlie's house, which includes homework and curfew.
    — Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
  • Kyiv’s daily curfew starts at midnight, and the bar shut at 8:30 p.m. so that people could get home; fans could not watch the whole event there.
    — Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • In each of the past two years, the city has imposed midnight curfews in response to shootings amid large crowds on Ocean Drive.
    — Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • Otárola announced a three-day curfew from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. in Puno, and a day of mourning for the fallen on Wednesday.
    — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2023
  • The curfew will now be in effect from Monday night to Thursday morning.
    — Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The town is under a curfew beginning tonight from 8 p.m. to 7 a.m. to keep the roads clear and keep people from moving around at night, Shipp said.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 3 Apr. 2023
  • There were no curfews — but there were expectations to be home on time.
    — Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 18 Oct. 2023
  • There was also the Teen Dance Ordinance to contend with, a curfew law used by the city to shut down all-ages parties and hip-hop events.
    — Gary Campbell, SPIN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Private media were seized and shuttered, curfews were imposed, and strikes and protests were banned.
    — Sara Tardiff, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2023
  • White said the department will be enforcing the curfew.
    — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2023
  • There was an unofficial nighttime curfew, and most of the city shut down in the late afternoon.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
  • On Monday, the city announced an 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for migrant shelters.
    — Melissa Kravitz Hoeffner, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
  • As part of his release, Barbiyeru faces a curfew that requires him to be home from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. every day.
    — oregonlive, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Lisak was also ordered to obey an 8 p.m.-to-8 a.m. curfew and is banned from the Tower at Ryan Park, the apartment complex where the equipment was found.
    — Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com, al, 12 June 2023

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