How to Use enforce in a Sentence

enforce

verb

• Police will be enforcing the parking ban.
• The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from being enforced.
  — Hannah Fingerhut The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 July 2024
• The court will decide whether to allow the state to enforce the law while the case proceeds in Burke’s court.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 26 Dec. 2022
• The full power of the state was deployed to spread and enforce that message.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Nikon does not enforce any such speed restrictions, so the lens can keep up with the Z 8 and Z 9.
  — PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the platforms have struggled to enforce their Covid rules.
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The details of what will trigger the penalty — the first of its kind in the U.S. — and when it will be enforced are still being worked out.
  — Rob Nikolewski, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
• Many, if not all, already do — but such rules were not evenly enforced in the last year.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• There’s a push to rethink the need for armed police to enforce street safety rules.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• Time for a new coach who can set and enforce higher standards.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• The ruling makes clear the ban cannot be enforced until after Aug. 12.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2024
• Still, the law hasn't actually been enforced while the case was making its way through the courts.
  — CBS News, 2 May 2024
• And even the chief of the state's prison system has claimed the law would be extremely expensive to enforce.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
• The force was deployed to help enforce the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the war in the country.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• That points to what may be the thorniest issue related to Supreme Court ethics: Who would enforce the code, and how?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• The cost of enforcing new dumping fines will come out of the city’s general fund.
  — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
• More:The law barred Florence mass shooter from having a gun, but who enforces it?
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2024
• More:The law barred Florence mass shooter from having a gun, but who enforces it?
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 12 July 2024
• The law was enforced by agents of the school committee — truant officers — with fines of up to $5 per week.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2024
• Here is where and when those restrictions will be enforced.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2024
• In the prison, the guards enforced a strict regime of silence; the detainees spoke to one another only in whispers.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• The bill says the Alabama Department of Revenue shall adopt rules to enforce the cap.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 1 June 2023
• Manila grounded the navy transport ship on Second Thomas Shoal in 1999 and has manned it with Filipino marines to enforce its claims to the area.
  — Chris Lau, CNN, 22 Oct. 2023
• In contrast, cultures like the U.S. and the U.K. that were built on less-binding crops like wheat mostly refused to enforce rules.
  — Thomas Talhelm, Scientific American, 5 Jan. 2023
• The court will decide whether the older or newer law, or a combination of the two, will be enforced.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 12 Dec. 2023
• San Diego was one of the first coastal cities in the state to explore a local law regulating vendors — but one of the last to adopt and enforce one.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 May 2024
• Florida’s statute must give way to the Constitution and laws of the United States and must not be enforced.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 14 Dec. 2023
• Prigozhin was buried in St. Petersburg, and the funeral was closed to the public, enforced by armed police.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 30 Aug. 2023
• As the holidays approach, family photographers should keep in mind one fact − copyright laws do exist, and they can be enforced.
  — Max Hauptman, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2024
• The lawmakers added that their respective states were not a party to the lawsuit and any settlement would not impact their states’ ability to enforce individual NIL laws.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 24 Dec 2024