How to Use draconian in a Sentence

draconian

adjective

• The editorial criticizes the draconian measures being taken to control the spread of the disease.
• In the case of draconian employers or managers, video might be required as an overkill form of check-in.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2020
• The more that Americans grow accustomed to being jerks, the more draconian the rules of the Masters seem.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 6 Apr. 2022
• But the draconian law remained in the books and survived the 1997 handover of sovereignty from Great Britain to China unscathed.
  — Ilaria Maria Sala, Quartz, 4 Oct. 2019
• The Taliban are again ruling through fear and draconian rules.
  — Atal Ahmadzai, The Conversation, 18 Jan. 2022
• Some point to Musk’s draconian cuts at Twitter as a pivot point for the industry.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 6 Apr. 2023
• After New York passed a law with draconian limits on Airbnb, chaos reigns.
  — WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
• The safety protocols in place for the new season can feel draconian at times.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 13 Mar. 2021
• The Taliban interpretation of sharia is among the most draconian in the world.
  — Marcus Yam, Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• That may seem draconian to some Americans, but the data shows these measures worked to save lives.
  — Dean Obeidallah, CNN, 16 Jan. 2022
• The sequester was a gun Congress held to its own head, designed to be so lethal that our lawmakers wouldn’t dare to pull the trigger in the form of draconian budget cuts.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2022
• And for what? There was a point at which draconian restrictions on travel made a certain sense.
  — Charles C. W. Cooke, National Review, 8 Sep. 2021
• Boyer levied draconian taxes in order to pay back the loans.
  — Marlene Daut, Quartz Africa, 3 July 2020
• This draconian 1864 ban will hurt women across this state.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• Enforcement of laws that embody a policy the enforcers agree with, and doing so in a draconian way, is only one face of the coin.
  — Michael B. Mukasey, National Review, 9 May 2023
• Like many African countries, Ghana has draconian antigay laws dating back to the colonial era.
  — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2022
• On the other hand, in some states the misperception has led to draconian policies that don’t square with science.
  — Apoorva Mandavilli New York Times, Star Tribune, 23 Nov. 2020
• Many of the companies in these industries will need to take draconian steps to survive.
  — Gad Levanon, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2020
• The lower rate outside of Hubei is likely due to the draconian social distancing measures China has put in place to try to slow spread of the virus.
  — Helen Branswell, STAT, 25 Feb. 2020
• And now, with the draconian and anti-science and anti-medicine laws being passed there, the Grants of today have fewer rights than the Grants of yesteryear.
  — Grant Hughes, Glamour, 13 July 2022
• Well, their approach has been very, very severe and rather draconian in the kinds of shutdowns without a seeming purpose.
  — NBC News, 27 Nov. 2022
• His last role, as the face of China’s draconian Covid-19 restrictions, was anything but.
  — Liyan Qi, WSJ, 2 Nov. 2023
• North Korea has taken some of the most draconian steps seen anywhere in the world to try to keep the virus out, describing it as a matter of national survival.
  — Dasl Yoon, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• The agreement is far less draconian than a debt limit bill that passed the House in April with only Republican support.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• Then there is the nuclear option, a penalty so draconian that no one likes spelling it out in public.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 17 Feb. 2023
• Others lament the inability to enroll their girls in schools, given the draconian edicts of the extremists in charge in Kabul.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
• Public safety concerns about both seals and sharks could have led to draconian measures, such as culling, but instead nature was left to take its course.
  — Jim Behnke, Scientific American, 2 July 2023
• Sam’s is on Belden Place, where outdoor restaurants managed to get through some of the more draconian health regulations.
  — Carl Nolte, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Feb. 2021
• To deprive a child of all access to the Internet would be draconian and also impractical, given that young people are more tech-savvy than their parents.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
• But as this temporary initiative concludes, the federal student loan system is poised to return to what some advocates say is a draconian collections system.
  — Adam S. Minsky, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024