How to Use martial law in a Sentence

martial law

noun

• The government has imposed martial law throughout the city to stop the riots.
• And with martial law, all men ages 18 to 60 were required to join the army.
  — Anna Conkling, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2022
• The best way to shut up the sources is to win lots of games, not declare martial law on them.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 6 Aug. 2019
• All Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 must stay in the country per martial law.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• The area is now under martial law, but many workers have vowed not to give up.
  — New York Times, 19 Mar. 2021
• The lockdown was like martial law; people put up with it.
  — Stuart Emmrich, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2021
• Even Greene’s call for martial law likely is not enough.
  — Ronald Sullivan, The Conversation, 9 May 2022
• The next day, the National Guard came and declared martial law, and the charges against Rowland were dropped.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
• The five-month siege was quelled but martial law has been extended.
  — Jim Gomez, Fox News, 11 May 2018
• In some parts of the world, new emergency laws have revived old fears of martial law.
  — Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2020
• There was talk of martial law happening and all these things.
  — Patrick Lyons, Billboard, 13 Apr. 2023
• Two male students fall in love in Taiwan in 1987, as martial law ends.
  — Carly Mallenbaum, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2020
• The city was placed under martial law and the National Guard was brought in to halt the violence.
  — Claudia Harmata, PEOPLE.com, 18 Dec. 2019
• On May 11th Mr Duterte forced out the chief justice of the Philippines, who had objected to his abuse of martial law.
  — The Economist, 14 June 2018
• At the very beginning of March, a rumor spread that martial law was about to be declared.
  — Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• Then the mayor declared martial law and called in the National Guard.
  — Marissa J. Lang, Washington Post, 1 July 2018
• The strongman praised the martial law era and in some ways emulated it with his bloody six-year war on drugs.
  — Regine Cabato, Washington Post, 16 June 2022
• Ukraine says adoptions will resume three months after the end of martial law.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 9 Sep. 2023
• He was arrested in the central province of Samar in 1972, the year martial law was declared in the Philippines.
  — Jes Aznar Jason Gutierrez, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2022
• When martial law was declared, my family left the Philippines and came to the United States.
  — Eric Johnson, Recode, 26 Nov. 2018
• The current state of martial law was expected to conclude on April 25.
  — Bloomberg.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• Textbooks have glossed over the consequences of martial law.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Her father stayed in Ukraine, where, under martial law, men of fighting age cannot leave the country.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2022
• At the start of the war, Ukraine imposed martial law, barring all males between ages 18 and 60 from exiting the country.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022
• At the time, Maryland was occupied by Union troops and was under martial law.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 5 June 2018
• With martial law having been declared in Ukraine, all able-bodied men ages 18 to 60 were required to stay and be available to join the army.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
• This is the first time martial law has been imposed in the Eastern European country.
  — Stavros Agorakis, Vox, 29 Nov. 2018
• Li said in a speech in May 1989 explaining the decision to impose martial law.
  — Isabella Steger, Quartz, 23 July 2019
• The trial would take place under martial law, freshly imposed by Reza.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• Some senior leaders called for the imposition of martial law.
  — Julian Gewirtz, Foreign Affairs, 29 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 15 Dec 2024