How to Use curfew in a Sentence

curfew

noun
  • No one is allowed on the streets during the curfew.
  • The town was placed under curfew.
  • The teens were stopped by police for violating the curfew.
  • The city ordered a curfew soon after the rioting started.
  • He has a 10 o'clock curfew.
  • Less than a week after the killing, the daytime curfew was lifted and most of Udaipur returned to work.
    Yashraj Sharma, NBC News, 22 July 2022
  • In Lafourche, the curfew starts at noon tomorrow and lasts through sunset Thursday, officials said in a statement.
    NBC News, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Homeless people sometimes turn down shelter for a variety of personal reasons, from health and safety concerns to a reluctance to follow curfews.
    Ethan Varian, The Mercury News, 3 Sep. 2024
  • There are curfews, interrogations, arrests, soldiers storming into houses and harassing people at will.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2024
  • Curacao, a Dutch Caribbean island, imposed a curfew on Wednesday morning.
    Adam Sabes, Fox News, 29 June 2022
  • But the 30-day curfew, Hardy said, was at least a place to start.
    Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The city went as far as to impose a curfew last weekend, for the third year in a row.
    Claire Pedersen, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • The cat did not fall for the trap before the volunteers left to beat a 10 p.m. curfew.
    Karin Brulliard and Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Despite the curfew, young people went to the city’s dance clubs.
    Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The app doesn’t have a curfew, so a teen could take a trip in the middle of the night without parental consent.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The city declared a state of emergency and put a curfew in place.
    Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Last year, two shootings on Ocean Drive led the city to set a midnight curfew.
    Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
  • On the fourth night of the protests, Evans and a group of cops were pursuing a rowdy crowd flouting the city’s curfew.
    Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The youth has been in the care of his mother, with GPS monitoring and a curfew.
    Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
  • There's checkpoints, police stops and checks you, and curfew lifts at 5:00 in the morning.
    Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The city’s curfew prohibits those under the age of 18 from being on the streets after 10 p.m.
    Paige Fry, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
  • The fight happened within a time frame allowed by the curfew law.
    Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The actors and their audience didn’t have much time to mill around: curfew was at eleven.
    Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023
  • The judge said the county is planning on implementing a curfew for the area.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 May 2023
  • The curfew, officials explained, lasts six hours, from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m., and the head of the household has to wear a GPS monitor.
    Hamed Aleaziz, Los Angeles Times, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The girls have rules at Charlie's house, which includes homework and curfew.
    Georgia Slater, Peoplemag, 15 June 2023
  • Kyiv’s daily curfew starts at midnight, and the bar shut at 8:30 p.m. so that people could get home; fans could not watch the whole event there.
    Maria Varenikova, New York Times, 13 May 2023
  • In each of the past two years, the city has imposed midnight curfews in response to shootings amid large crowds on Ocean Drive.
    Aaron Leibowitz, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • A day later, the mayor announced that the city would be placed under an 11 p.m. curfew.
    Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
  • Otárola announced a three-day curfew from 8 p.m. to 4 a.m. in Puno, and a day of mourning for the fallen on Wednesday.
    Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 12 Jan. 2023

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