Example Sentences

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The order enjoins the government from further review and use of these documents for investigative purposes, not for purposes of intelligence classification and national security assessments.

From Slate • Sep. 6, 2022

So, will you join in the battle to give every citizen the full equality which God enjoins and the law requires, whatever his belief, or race, or the color of his skin?

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

The Campbell House, included in admission, enjoins history buffs to self-tour an elegant 1900s mansion.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 7, 2021

Freed finds an inventive way to handle Shakespeare's troublesome ending when Kate, her spirit broken, enjoins the headstrong women around her to gratefully succumb to their husbands.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 2, 2018

The first precept of the Philonic scheme enjoins monolatry, the second expresses God’s spiritual and transcendental nature.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various