Example Sentences

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Everybody is on notice: If you are assigned to handle these cases, you will violate court orders, and you may be held in contempt.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2026

There are also fears that automated systems will violate the rules of war.

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2025

That brought a sharp warning from Egypt that deploying Israeli troops in the zone, known in Egypt as the Salaheddin Corridor, will violate the peace deal.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 25, 2024

“But I think ultimately, you know, his narcissism will get the best of him, and he will violate it until he finds out what the limits of Judge Chutkan’s patience are.”

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2023

You say that it ought to be like that, and that M. Flaubert will violate the rules of good taste if he shows his thought and the aim of his literary enterprise.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel