How to Use edict in a Sentence

edict

noun

• The government issued an edict banning public demonstrations.
• The edict of size doesn’t just stop in the weight room with the current players.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
• The edict of the line is to be efficient, towable, and rugged.
  — Hayden Coplen, Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2020
• The edict was that neither school was leaving the Big 12 that year.
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 22 July 2021
• The edict went out that the club’s galáctico era was over.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2024
• The Mayor’s no-cars edict for the 2028 Olympics didn’t mention flights.
  — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2024
• The church issued a style guide in the wake of Nelson’s August 2018 edict.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
• So, the politicians have found a legal way around the voters’ edict.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• His wife, Christi, has a firm edict that his work clothes are never to touch hers.
  — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Apr. 2021
• There is anger among Afghan women as a face veil edict splits the Taliban.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
• One of them defies his edict to stay out of Annabelle's bedroom.
  — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2023
• An all-hands-on-deck edict has been issued to get the project up to speed — for now, the R1T is taking a back seat.
  — Edward Ludlow, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• The edict falls in line with a new vision and strategy for the hotel.
  — Vivian Song, Robb Report, 1 June 2021
• One edict said the most devout women wouldn’t leave the house at all, unless there’s need.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Sixty staffers, or about 5% of the company, left in the wake of Armstrong's edict.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 4 May 2021
• One edict said the most devout women would not leave the house at all, unless there’s need.
  — Nabih Bulos, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• Some pols were reluctant to go along with the speaker’s edict.
  — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
• The edict comes as the number of coronavirus cases in the state remains low.
  — Bloomberg.com, 6 May 2020
• The shelter-in-place edict caused a drop in sales, which Arredondo said were on the rise before the coronavirus.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Jan. 2022
• The dial-it-down edict following the attempt on Trump’s life sort of worked.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
• The Philips boys were too young to be subject to Napoleon’s edict, but Roget was leery of sending them off alone.
  — Claudia Kalb, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
• The leader of Grafton at the time issued an edict: Find another way.
  — ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2020
• But the specter of the Taliban’s edicts targeting women and girls also looms at the Afghan Post.
  — Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
• The new edict might run through late August, encompassing the span of the Games from July 23 to Aug. 8.
  — Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2021
• In a state as large as Texas, where the culture of football is king, a statewide edict along those lines likely wouldn’t stick.
  — Greg Riddle, Dallas News, 20 Aug. 2021
• Galvan says the switch came in form of a conversation, rather than an edict from Belles.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2022
• The edict comes just a month after the government lifted a curfew in place since March 2020.
  — Reuters, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
• But Roosevelt coach Lane Wasinger didn’t just accept that edict.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2020
• Like Blasphemous Act, Blasphemous Edict can reduce its cost to a one mana board wipe if there are enough creatures around, and like all ‘edicts’ makes players sacrifice creatures.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
• At the same time, a corporate edict not to encroach on Land Rover’s turf prevented them from offering full-on off-road capability.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 9 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024