How to Use enforce in a Sentence

enforce

verb
Definition of enforcenext
Synonyms for enforcenext
  • Police will be enforcing the parking ban.
  • The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from being enforced.
    — Hannah Fingerhut The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 July 2024
  • The judge has the option at that hearing to enforce the order for up to five years.
    — Teri Figueroa, The Mercury News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • The court will decide whether to allow the state to enforce the law while the case proceeds in Burke’s court.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 26 Dec. 2022
  • The full power of the state was deployed to spread and enforce that message.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Nikon does not enforce any such speed restrictions, so the lens can keep up with the Z 8 and Z 9.
    — PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024
  • But the platforms have struggled to enforce their Covid rules.
    — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The details of what will trigger the penalty — the first of its kind in the U.S. — and when it will be enforced are still being worked out.
    — Rob Nikolewski, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
  • Many, if not all, already do — but such rules were not evenly enforced in the last year.
    — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
  • There’s a push to rethink the need for armed police to enforce street safety rules.
    — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
  • Time for a new coach who can set and enforce higher standards.
    — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The ruling makes clear the ban cannot be enforced until after Aug. 12.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2024
  • The school recently stopped enforcing its dress code for the shirts.
    — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Still, the law hasn't actually been enforced while the case was making its way through the courts.
    — CBS News, 2 May 2024
  • And even the chief of the state's prison system has claimed the law would be extremely expensive to enforce.
    — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
  • The force was deployed to help enforce the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the war in the country.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 11 July 2023
  • That points to what may be the thorniest issue related to Supreme Court ethics: Who would enforce the code, and how?
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
  • The cost of enforcing new dumping fines will come out of the city’s general fund.
    — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
  • More:The law barred Florence mass shooter from having a gun, but who enforces it?
    — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2024
  • More:The law barred Florence mass shooter from having a gun, but who enforces it?
    — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 12 July 2024
  • The law was enforced by agents of the school committee — truant officers — with fines of up to $5 per week.
    — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Here is where and when those restrictions will be enforced.
    — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2024
  • In the prison, the guards enforced a strict regime of silence; the detainees spoke to one another only in whispers.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • The bill says the Alabama Department of Revenue shall adopt rules to enforce the cap.
    — Mike Cason | [email protected], al, 1 June 2023
  • Manila grounded the navy transport ship on Second Thomas Shoal in 1999 and has manned it with Filipino marines to enforce its claims to the area.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
  • In contrast, cultures like the U.S. and the U.K. that were built on less-binding crops like wheat mostly refused to enforce rules.
    — Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2023
  • The court will decide whether the older or newer law, or a combination of the two, will be enforced.
    — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2023
  • San Diego was one of the first coastal cities in the state to explore a local law regulating vendors — but one of the last to adopt and enforce one.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
  • Florida’s statute must give way to the Constitution and laws of the United States and must not be enforced.
    — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Prigozhin was buried in St. Petersburg, and the funeral was closed to the public, enforced by armed police.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Aug. 2023

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