How to Use prohibition in a Sentence

prohibition

noun

• The suit challenges only the prohibition on the billy and not the other weapons listed in the same statute.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2024
• Built in 1889, the basement of the home served as a speakeasy during the prohibition era, according to the Daily Hive.
  — Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 7 Sep. 2023
• The court said the absence of a prohibition in state law does not mean that drop boxes are legal.
  — Arkansas Online, 9 July 2022
• The prohibition against soap comes from a time when all soap was made with lye, which could eat through a patina in minutes.
  — Julia Moskin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
• There's no prohibition against the types of vehicles that go over it.
  — Elaine Quijano, CBS News, 21 June 2023
• The story of the prohibition begins with the Christian right.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 1 Aug. 2022
• Maybe a 1920-pack next year to celebrate the end of prohibition?
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 30 June 2022
• But the bills would go further by placing a prohibition in state law.
  — Jim Saunders, Sun Sentinel, 3 Mar. 2023
• The union has also sought to require union sign-off on any use of AI, as well as a prohibition on AI training.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 11 Oct. 2023
• If the court greenlights the restrictions, the tougher six-week prohibition could take effect.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 23 Aug. 2023
• But it’s not too late to save the $72 billion cannabis industry from the perils of prohibition.
  — Laura Smythe, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022
• There is no prohibition for banks to serve firms in the cryptocurrency space.
  — Gene A. Grant Ii, Forbes, 10 Feb. 2023
• Reynolds has vowed to fight the ban all the way to the Supreme Court, a battle that could postpone implementation of the final prohibition rule for years.
  — David A. Fahrenthold, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2023
• The latest is a prohibition against the use of government funds to promote Covid vaccines.
  — Amy Maxmen | Kff Health News, NBC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• The most scandalous feature of all here is the absolute prohibition on them.
  — Matthew Scully, National Review, 16 May 2023
• The end of the priesthood/temple prohibition on Black members.
  — Peggy Fletcher Stack, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Dec. 2022
• Raising the specter of a new prohibition felt a little extreme.
  — Jason Wilson, Washington Post, 25 July 2022
• That prohibition extends to the purchase of school supplies.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 12 Aug. 2023
• And in April, Montana legislators approved a bill to block TikTok in the state, a first-of-its-kind prohibition.
  — Kalley Huang, New York Times, 10 May 2023
• Meanwhile, Ralph Nader, the consumer activist, wrote to Rehnquist about the scandal to ask for a prohibition on such trips.
  — Brett Murphy, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
• There are no such prohibitions in the U.S. and no one knows how many such experiments are conducted and what kinds are done.
  — Peter Singer, TIME, 26 Oct. 2024
• DeSantis has since pushed to expand the prohibition to all grades.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• In 2018, New York City lifted a prohibition on riders zipping through city streets on e-bikes.
  — Tim Balk, New York Daily News, 20 May 2024
• But at least one community that thought about adopting a natural gas prohibition has put the idea on the shelf — at least for the time being.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Jan. 2024
• Brunson now sees her mother’s embrace of a faith with strict prohibitions on drugs as a way of seeking safety.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024
• At the trial, James is seeking a $250 million penalty and a prohibition on Trump doing business in New York.
  — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 5 Oct. 2023
• In recent years, France has come closer to ending its national prohibition of cannabis, which has been in place since 1970.
  — The Conversation, 13 July 2022
• The subterranean bar has a New York prohibition vibe with fringed chairs, plush private booths - a secret drinking den.
  — Joanne Shurvell, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• Inspired by prohibition, the bottom level is full of bold spirit-forward cocktails.
  — Ryan Slattery, Travel + Leisure, 21 Oct. 2024
• Evanston — once an epicenter of the U.S. prohibition movement — charges a 6% liquor consumption tax, for example.
  — Alice Yin, Chicago Tribune, 20 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024