How to Use martial law in a Sentence

martial law

noun

• The government has imposed martial law throughout the city to stop the riots.
• In some parts of the world, new emergency laws have revived old fears of martial law.
  — Selam Gebrekidan, New York Times, 30 Mar. 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
• Police seemed unable to respond to crime, as martial law prohibited travel between states to stop the spread of the virus.
  — Kristen Rogers, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
• Could the federal government send the military out to impose martial law?
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2020
• But once the food ends then martial law, rioting, looting—all those things quickly follow understandably.
  — Garrett M. Graff, Wired, 10 Apr. 2020
• Some towns in the Lombardy region of Italy are under a form of quarantine and restriction that residents think of as martial law.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 24 Feb. 2020
• Some 200 suspects were detained, amid a national outcry which saw the central government impose martial law.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 18 Dec. 2019
• Louisiana is also working with local police to support the order but quashed rumors on its website of military control or martial law.
  — Amelia Pak-Harvey, Indianapolis Star, 24 Mar. 2020
• The Ampatuans were backed by members of the Philippines police and army, and the government declared martial law after the massacre.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 19 Dec. 2019
• Most victims were buried during a period of martial law following the violence, Hammerstedt explained.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2019
• And with martial law, all men ages 18 to 60 were required to join the army.
  — Anna Conkling, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2022
• 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
• 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
• At the very beginning of March, a rumor spread that martial law was about to be declared.
  — Maxim Osipov, The Atlantic, 16 May 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Why? Claude Joseph, the foreign minister and acting prime minister at that time, declared a state of siege and imposed martial law.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 20 June 2024
• The protests continued into early June, when martial law was declared, and the ensuing clash between military and protesters was immortalized by a photo of a lone protester standing in front of a column of tanks on June 5.
  — The Arizona Republic, 17 May 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024