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.
• My husband wasn’t with me the night before, because of the curfew in the city.
  — Glamour, 6 Apr. 2022
• Some grapple with theft or other crime, deciding to resort to limits like curfews.
  — Alina Selyukh, NPR, 28 Nov. 2024
• When an officer arrived, Gardner asked if there was a city curfew in place, to which the officer said there was not.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
• For those who want to avoid the Brackenridge crowds, other parks have also suspended the curfew.
  — Elena Bruess, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2022
• But protests went ahead the next day in defiance of the curfew, prompting police to arrest hundreds of demonstrators.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
• City officials agreed to stop enforcing the curfew and provide implicit bias training for police officers.
  — Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 2 Dec. 2024
• The vast majority of U.S. society shouldn’t have to live under the close eye of the police, enduring barricades and curfews, just to stay safe.
  — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Nov. 2024
• Kyiv has reduced curfew hours from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m., Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 17 Apr. 2022
• On top of the community order stipulating the curfew and the electronic tag, the judge gave Mills a 12-month restraining order.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 8 Apr. 2022
• Petro Titenko says his decision to walk to his brother's house after curfew in Borodyanka, Ukraine, led to three days of torture at the hands of Russian soldiers.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 6 Apr. 2022
• In response, the government on Friday declared a state of emergency, imposing a curfew in parts of the city and blocking social media platforms nationwide.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 4 Apr. 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
• The sky west of the city, which was under an overnight curfew, was lit up by an orange glow.
  — Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2022
• 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 | [e-mail], 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

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024