How to Use contravene in a Sentence

contravene

verb

• The overcrowded dance club contravened safety regulations.
• Their actions contravened any sense of law and humanitarian principles.
  — Ami Ayalon, Foreign Affairs, 11 Apr. 2024
• Those contravening the law could face up to a year and a half in prison.
  — Elias Meseret, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2018
• His failure to do so contravened the board’s code of practice.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 11 May 2023
• But LePage doesn’t seem to mind contravening the will of the people.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Apr. 2018
• In an increasing number of states, that choice could contravene the law.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022
• As in Akron, all of these restrictions appeared to contravene the trimester framework of Roe.
  — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 25 June 2022
• The problem was that the league had forbidden that practice and threatened to fine any player who contravened the order.
  — Bruce Weber, New York Times, 15 June 2023
• Five months after the game's release, some have spotted a design on the shirt sleeves which appears to contravene the game's child-friendly rating.
  — SI.com, 17 Feb. 2018
• Moscow says the system is in full compliance with the agreement and has denied contravening the treaty.
  — Anatoly Kurmanaev, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
• The presence of Pooh’s likeness would contravene Olympic rules of sponsorship and branding.
  — JerÉ Longman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2018
• So Trump didn’t have to exercise his pardon power on the man’s behalf, as promised, but stepped in to ensure that he couldn’t be punished at all, contravening the Navy’s rules.
  — Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 12 Feb. 2020
• Despite this, the assurance was ignored, and the band’s actions clearly contravened the agreement with Future Sound Asia.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 10 Aug. 2023
• This week, the player appeared in court with his wife Vadja - who was also accused of contravening tax laws - and spent about 10 minutes in a session, with his lawyer also present.
  — SI.com, 9 Jan. 2018
• The ministry said the government will step up enforcement measures against people who contravene their stay-at-home notices.
  — Faris Mokhtar, Bloomberg.com, 7 May 2020
• Burning Man officials say the growing fame of artists at the event doesn’t contravene the community’s principles.
  — Brenda Cronin, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2018
• Given that the new rules directly contravene existing law, those challenges may have a decent chance of success.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• Lawsuits and claims for damages could follow if international treaties were deemed to have been contravened.
  — Zainab Fattah, Bloomberg.com, 3 July 2017
• Critics say that contravenes the United Nations refugee convention of 1951.
  — Tom Simonite, WIRED, 31 May 2018
• Such a move would contravene sanctions, triggering the yacht’s impoundment.
  — Nick Kostov and Giovanni Legorano, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2022
• The Apple statement also doesn't contravene the central significance of the attacks.
  — Wired, 6 Sep. 2019
• DACA contravenes the elementary principle that the legislative branch ought to pass laws and the executive branch ought to enforce them.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Aug. 2017
• The ruling contravenes a decision from Favreto’s own court, which ordered da Silva arrested in April.
  — Ernesto Londoño, BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2018
• Chinese tech companies such as Baidu have become adept at filtering content that contravenes these rules.
  — Meaghan Tobin, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• And the newfound alliance with Democrats is set to be short-lived, erased by the next impolitic presidential comment or by Democratic demands contravening Trump's agenda.
  — Zeke J Miller, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
• Only three in a panel of five judges ruled in favour of a ban: one did so by arguing that instant divorce contravened not India’s constitution but Islamic law.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Guardian Facebook ban Facebook has banned events that contravene social distancing orders put in place by state governments.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2020
• And by some estimates, as many as two-thirds of those boats engage in fishing that contravenes international or national laws.
  — Andrew Jacobs, The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
• All discussions to that end have been a sham, obviously so: contravening international law, settlement began virtually days after the end of the 1967 war—particularly in the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem—and has not let up since.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• Perhaps the recollection lapse has something to do with the delay in American entry into the brutal conflict, which didn’t come for almost three years, contravening an early declaration of determined neutrality.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Dec 2024