How to Use curtailment in a Sentence

curtailment

noun

• The curtailment of Western support for Ukraine would not end the war.
  — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2023
• The blackouts are what’s known as Step 50 in the emergency load curtailment plan – the next to highest step.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 12 Jan. 2023
• But in recent weeks the rate has climbed by more than can be explained simply by the curtailment of the Tulane testing.
  — Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
• The predictable results would be, in the short run, the curtailment of existing founders’ control.
  — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2019
• The other owners agreed to the curtailment plan, according to APS.
  — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
• That’s why Trump should focus on getting those changes, as well as an end of the visa lottery and a curtailment of chain migration.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Jan. 2018
• The state sent curtailment notices to a larger group of about 4,500 water rights holders in August.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
• That curtailment of liberty wasn’t the only result of the revolt, though.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
• So long as this is the fact, crop curtailment is repugnant in principle.
  — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
• Long-term curtailment of oil and gas drilling on federal lands would devastate the state’s budget.
  — Paul J. Gessing, National Review, 12 Feb. 2021
• By being an interruptible and steady baseload, the crypto mine could pull energy from the wind farm and prevent the need for curtailment when the wind was at full tilt.
  — Jemma Green, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• What does your bank do to get comfortable with basis and curtailment forecasts?
  — Jason Kaminsky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Sales rose under Obama as some gun owners feared curtailment of their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
  — Katy Moeller and David Staats, idahostatesman, 4 Apr. 2018
• That was mostly due to Libya and Nigeria, the two suppliers exempt from the production-curtailment pact.
  — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
• Anyone who took advantage of that offer now stands to see a drastic curtailment in the level of support for their system.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 17 July 2017
• The next day, Moore's staff announced cost-cutting measures, including the curtailment of jury trials for five months.
  — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 22 Sep. 2017
• OPEC members, in an attempt to bring prices back up, agreed last November to curtailments in production.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 24 May 2017
• The heavy curtailment of international flights as a result of the pandemic has also meant that many of those willing to fly home to cast their ballot cannot do so.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2020
• At the heart of the demonstrations is the outrage of a large and influential segment of the population at the curtailment of their limited democratic rights in the Putin era.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2019
• Now is not the time to bring about more closures and curtailments in our basic industry and allow a flood of imports to crush the domestic industry and its workers.
  — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2020
• The time since has been filled with significant but incremental changes, from anti-bias training to the adoption of body cameras to the curtailment of stop-and-frisk practices.
  — NBC News, 16 June 2020
• These students should probably think twice about calling for the curtailment of certain people’s rights to speak and assemble freely.
  — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
• This curtailment will lead to bankruptcies, job losses and recessions, the thinking goes.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
• Lawmakers are trying again this year to enshrine the curtailment of solitary confinement in law.
  — Kelan Lyons, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
• The wet winter in the state has led to a surge in hydroelectricity, leading to curtailments of utility-scale solar.
  — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 May 2017
• Another Ormond Beach unit had the sixth-highest level of curtailments.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Human rights groups have warned that Raisi, a former head of Iran’s judiciary, could oversee a further curtailment of freedoms.
  — Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2021
• The order went well beyond the usual curtailment of staffers for security and safety reasons.
  — Robert Burns, ajc, 30 Apr. 2021
• However, if and when bonuses become excessive, and erode the public’s perception of fairness, curtailment might be necessary.
  — Alex Freeman, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 2024
• The other case also has progressives fretting about the court’s curtailment of executive agencies’ discretion.
  — George F. Will, Washington Post, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024