How to Use law-abiding in a Sentence

law-abiding

adjective

• Crooked Joe has a 40-year record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.
  — Adriana Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2024
• The firm has a sterling reputation thanks to word-of-mouth among their law-abiding clients.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2 May 2024
• And the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
• The bill defines a law-abiding citizen as anyone not barred from owning a gun.
  — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• Superman, positive, law-abiding, and shaped by the loving Kents, belongs to the day.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• In the past, gun rights advocates had argued that a responsible and law-abiding person has a right to have a gun for self-defense, and the Supreme Court had agreed.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• Critics accused them of politicizing his death to thwart their rights as law-abiding gun owners.
  — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• As the famed columnist Molly Ivins once observed, there is a telling irony in the speed with which law-abiding gun owners are inclined to threaten their critics.
  — TIME, 31 Jan. 2024
• His attorney, Clyde Bennett II, said what happened was the exception in a law-abiding life.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
• Joe Biden’s critics often accuse him of waging a war on law-abiding Americans’ right to bear arms.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
• In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
• The victims of another scam were law-abiding Asian Americans.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
• The suit describes the condition as unique to Meza and the Fragas: No other parolee in the state was prohibited from contact with a law-abiding citizen who was not a victim of the parolee.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 7 June 2023
• More curious was the way a variety of law-abiding Americans developed an interest in the same line of thought.
  — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• There is no big wall around us, cordoning off a law-abiding chunk of the universe from the anarchic and inexplicable beyond.
  — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• The vast majority of Lake City rounds sold by retailers have gone to law-abiding citizens, from hunters and farmers to target shooters.
  — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
• Rather than addressing crime at its core, Governor Grisham is restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Dyer believes rigid gun control laws mainly hurt law-abiding weapon owners.
  — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
• Lawyers for the plaintiffs told the judge that the governor had other options to address the problem but chose the inflict what some critics have described as a punishment on law-abiding residents.
  — Susan Montoya Bryan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Per the official description, in the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 June 2024
• People blow off steam and then go back and become basically law-abiding citizens.
  — Glenn Rifkin, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
• Over the last decade, Cardinal Burke, 75, has expressed doubts about the pope’s grasp on church teaching and accused him of alienating church law-abiding conservatives with his inclusive stance.
  — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.
  — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 6 June 2023
• Yet even for someone like Ohad – a father of three, a law-abiding and patriotic citizen, an Israeli success story – those lines may be eroding.
  — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023
• Evan is a law-abiding, decent reporter being held hostage for geopolitical leverage.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• There has been a collapse of responsible, law-abiding behavior.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2024
• This results in lax policing across the U.S., where theft has gone unpunished for too long and criminals take advantage of lax prosecution at the expense of law-abiding business owners.
  — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023
• Once there, these groups metastasized, controlling vast portions of the country and making life miserable for many law-abiding citizens.
  — Rafael Romo, CNN, 11 Mar. 2023
• Defense attorneys argued that such a broad reading would put many otherwise law-abiding activists at risk of lengthy felony sentences, and Judge Gregory Katsas agreed with that.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 13 Dec. 2023
• Enormous resources are available, thanks to the aggressor’s overconfidence in leaving hundreds of billions of dollars and euros in law-abiding states.
  — Philip Zelikow, Foreign Affairs, 12 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024