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.
• 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
• Michael was required to remain under house arrest with a strict curfew, while wearing an ankle monitor.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 May 2022
• Not everyone wants to be in a crowded shelter with a curfew, but people will move off the streets given the right opportunities, Watts said.
  — Travis Loller, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2022
• Indeed, the city of Sanibel issued an evacuation order, with those who stay subject to a 24-hour curfew.
  — Paul P. Murphy and Michelle Krupa, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• But even as life tentatively re-establishes itself, Kharkiv remains under curfew.
  — New York Times, 18 May 2022
• As the invasion escalated, Ilinska packed her entire life into a bag and made the decision to escape just before curfew.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2022
• Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot has since imposed a curfew for minors as violence continues to rise in the city.
  — Jon Brown, Fox News, 22 May 2022
• City Council agreed to move forward with an ordinance reinstating a juvenile curfew with several amendments at the first meeting in May.
  — Caroline Tien, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 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 | [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
• 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
• 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
• And overnight curfews were imposed in many cities and counties in south Georgia, including Albany, Valdosta and Thomasville.
  — Heather Hollingsworth, Chicago Tribune, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Nov 2024