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curfew - use in sentences
Converse of object
- impose: They have imposed a curfew on the 37,000 refugees to be inside their tents by 10pm.
- defy: The crowd had defied a night-time curfew to carry out the protest.
- enforce: Beginning tonight, there will be a curfew enforced within the limits of our fair town.
- lift: Even when they lift the curfew we cannot go out, we are so close to the president's compound.
- break: Let's say the teen has broken curfew by a few hours.
- tag: There are a number of options open to courts including tagging, curfews, intensive supervision and surveillance programs and community punishment.
Adjective modifier
- 11pm: A new bill in 2004 replaced this, and included additional measures such as an 11pm curfew for firework use.
- 10pm: Two of the dead had ASBOs against them and were under 10pm curfew.
- strict: They have to abide by the house rules, including a strict curfew.
- military: A military curfew was imposed on the area for a period of 34 hours with movement of people heavily restricted.
Modifies a noun
- bell: A thousand chimneys ceased smoking at the curfew bell.
- order: Child curfew orders prevent parents from deciding whether to let their children out at night.
- scheme: Families can offer their relative a place to stay to enable them to be released early under the home detention curfew scheme.
- power: The Court found that the curfew power could not have been intended to include the right to use force.
Noun used with modifier
- night-time: The crowd had defied a night-time curfew to carry out the protest.
- 9pm: There's even a 9pm curfew - signaled, somewhat forcefully, by a volley of gunfire across the valley.
- detention: Families can offer their relative a place to stay to enable them to be released early under the home detention curfew scheme.
- midnight: A midnight curfew was still in force - not a safe place for a stranger.
- night: No night curfew in the hotel: concierge service is 24 hours a day.
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