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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