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.
• 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
• My husband wasn’t with me the night before, because of the curfew in the city.
  — Glamour, 6 Apr. 2022
• 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
• Schools, banks and shops have been closed and a nighttime curfew has been put in place.
  — David Winning, WSJ, 9 Feb. 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
• For the next two weeks, a strict 8 p.m. curfew will be enforced, all but dashing the après-ski scene.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 27 Nov. 2021
• 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
• 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 storm was so severe in some areas that a curfew was installed.
  — Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
• The judge said the county is planning on implementing a curfew for the area.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 13 May 2023
• Throughout the evening, officers warned them to honor the eight-o’clock curfew and go home.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• 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
• At press time, a 36-hour curfew is in place for Kiev; the Sky News team won’t be able to move around the city until Monday morning.
  — Manori Ravindran, Variety, 26 Feb. 2022
• Officials in Lafourche Parish issued a curfew at 8 a.m. on Tuesday, asking residents to shelter in place and stay off the icy roads.
  — Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
• During the fighting, government forces imposed curfews in both areas, which began in Jableh near Hmeimim.
  — Paul Iddon, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025