How to Use criminalize in a Sentence

criminalize

verb

• Some argue the measure would further criminalize homelessness, and others saying the city took too long to act.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2021
• In a lengthy post, Shover and two of her colleagues said the law would effectively criminalize homelessness in the areas highlighted on their map.
  — Julia Wick Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 Aug. 2021
• Homeless advocates have nevertheless voiced alarm, saying there is not enough shelter space available and that the ordinance would criminalize those living on the streets.
  — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2021
• Today, once again, Justice Thomas indicated his support for cutting back federal laws that criminalize pot.
  — David S. Cohen, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2021
• State-level voter engagement groups contend that could criminalize their work if Kansans mistake volunteers for election officials.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 5 Aug. 2021
• The march had been planned in response to a law that will criminalize some drag performances.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• And then the other two states there is either a ban or attempts to criminalize it.
  — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2022
• Instead Hong Kong has criminalized Mr. Lai’s calls to uphold freedom and the rule of law.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
• His first order of business was to introduce a state bill to criminalize the type of scam that led to his son’s death.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 13 May 2023
• There is nothing in the text of the resolution that mentions banning or criminalizing the use or singing of the phrase.
  — Isabel C. Morales, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2023
• The law was also amended to criminalize acts such as stalking and voyeurism and allow for suspects to be tried as adults at age 16.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
• This legislative package will also criminalize both the act of making a threat of mass harm and adding to a threat with overt acts to further it.
  — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 6 June 2022
• That all recently came to a screeching halt when the city criminalized the substance.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
• Dissent has been criminalized as extremist and can lead to sentences of life in prison.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• The decision is subject to state laws that can criminalize the practice.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2021
• They may be criminalized for sleeping on the street and have a record that prevents them from accessing housing again.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
• In India, the push to criminalize marital rape goes back decades.
  — Sarita Santoshini, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2022
• The state is currently engaged in a year-long battle over the precedent of an 1849 law that criminalizes the death of an unborn child at the hands of anyone but the mother.
  — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The analysis of state laws finds most of the rules that criminalize address sharing do so by considering the practice a form of theft.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• So rather than, than further criminalize their hobby Jackson sought to draw them in.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 May 2022
• Last month during a Pheu Thai rally, youth activists asked if Pheu Thai would amend the law that criminalizes criticism of the monarchy.
  — Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• And five years after the first deepfakes started to appear, the first laws are just emerging that criminalize the sharing of faked images.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
• The Court was right that some presidential acts can’t be criminalized.
  — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 July 2024
• Last month, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a first-of-its kind measure that would criminalize some drag performances in the state.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2023
• The law, Gould said, would criminalize setting off fireworks and allow police to take fireworks as contraband and get them off the streets.
  — cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
• About 38 states have feticide statutes, which criminalize killing a fetus.
  — Melissa Jeltsen, The Atlantic, 1 July 2022
• In Wisconsin — where an 1849 law that is still on the books would criminalize doctors for performing abortions in most cases — some providers plan to head out of state.
  — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2022
• Pita’s party had vowed to weaken a law that criminalizes criticism of the monarchy and shrink the military.
  — Muktita Suhartono, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• Suffering from a grave infection, the 28-year-old medical assistant and single mother needed a procedure that had been criminalized in Georgia, with few exceptions.
  — Alexandra Zayas, ProPublica, 3 Oct. 2024
• Now North Carolina, New York, and a host of cities and towns are narrowing mask exceptions and criminalizing adult masks except for specific health or religious reasons.
  — Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024