Example Sentences

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The blackout is the latest in a series of restrictions which the Taliban have enforced since returning to power.

From BBC • Sep. 29, 2025

He pleaded no contest and under terms of probation was ordered to stay away from Metro trains, but how would anyone have enforced such an order?

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2024

"The discipline activists have enforced has held," Ceres' Logan said adding "No one has really done anything crazy."

From Reuters • Oct. 6, 2023

One problem, Quiñonez said, is that cases tend to be kicked back to the same Mexican courts and authorities that should have enforced the law in the first place.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 29, 2023

Over the years, some English teachers have enforced the notion that conjunctions like and and but should be used only to join elements within a sentence, not to join one sentence with another.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner