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How to use crackdown in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun

Crackdown means abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement. Example: “The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.”

Examples of crackdown by meaning

nounAbruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.

  • In the last two years crackdowns on various sectors of the economy, as well as prominent Chinese businessmen, have caused uncertainty.2023 November 15, Tessa Wong, “Xi Jinping arrives in US as his Chinese Dream sputters”, in BBC, archived from the original on 25 Nov 2023

More sentences with crackdown

  • The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.From the entry insurrectionary
  • During the crackdown, many opponents of the regime were arrested.From the entry opponent
  • The crackdown on insider trading sends a message: Wall Streeters accustomed to vacationing at Club Med had best be careful not to end up at Club Fed instead.From the entry Club Fed
  • After the crackdown, an unarmed man briefly stopped a line of tanks on Chang’an Avenue.2015 September 3, Patrick Boehler, “China’s Military Parade Celebrates World War II Victory”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Chang'an Avenue
  • Last week the UK government announced a crackdown on unsafe driving.2013 August 19, Chris Chambers, “Bad driving: what are we thinking?”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 20 Apr 2021. From the entry tailgate
  • The latest Christian "house church" crackdown is occurring in Xihua county, in Henan.2000 September 5, John Pomfret, “China Expands Crackdown on Religions Not Recognized by State”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry Xihua
  • Hopheads, they screamed in three-inch headlines, which brought the inevitable police crackdown.1970, Wally Ferris, Across 110th, page 93. From the entry hophead
  • Rights groups have accused the government of exploiting the media blackout to carry out a brutal crackdown against protesters.2026 January 13, Deepa Parent, William Christou, “Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on…. From the entry exploit
  • The Chinese leadership's brutal crackdown on students seeking fundamental democratic rights makes it difficult to chart the future.1990, Ronald Reagan, An American Life, Pocket Books, →ISBN, pages 372–373. From the entry totalitarian
  • Human rights advocate Wei Ching-sheng was arrested in Peiping's recent crackdown on dissidents according to a report from Hongkong.1979 April 29, “'Fifth modernization'”, in Free China Weekly, volume XX, number 16, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3. From the entry Hongkong
  • In recent years, China has waged a brutal crackdown on the Uyghurs, a largely Muslim minority, which it has described as a war on terror.2022 May 16, Huizhong Wu, Drake Kang, “Uyghur country in China has highest prison rate in the world”, in AP News, archived from the…. From the entry War on Terror
  • While the once-ubiquitous columnist eventually fled New York during Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s crackdown on debauchery and vice, clubland, it seems, never forgot his influence.2015 July 29, Alex Williams, “Former Club Kids Rally Around Stephen Saban, a Scribe of 1980s New York Culture”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry clubland
  • Though miso wasn’t uncovered in any of the raids, the overall crackdowns—and amped up policing—have made vendors wary of selling the pill.2014 June 27, Erica Hellerstein, “The Rise of the DIY Abortion in Texas”, in The Atlantic. From the entry amped up
  • What seems to be growing more pronounced is the time lag between open criticism, often via the Internet, and the state’s crackdown.2005 January–February, Mary E[lizabeth] Gallagher, “China in 2004: Stability above All”, in Asian Survey […], volume XLV, number 1…. From the entry samizdat
  • But when the anti-hacker crackdown thinks of hacker pods as part of a conspiracy, it is fundamentally misrecognizing the nature of hacker groupings.2004, Alexander R. Galloway, Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization. From the entry anti-hacker
  • Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order. From the entry incapacitation
  • Despite a reported police crackdown, young men selling illegal fireworks were providing their usual Fourth of July curb service to passing motorists yesterday.1987 July 4, William E. Geist, “About New York: July 3d Languor”, in New York Times, retrieved 01 Aug 2014. From the entry curb service
  • However, a new analysis from Trump’s alma mater suggests that his immigration crackdown – a centerpiece of his second term – could do the exact opposite.2025 July 25, Matt Egan, “How Trump’s mass deportations could backfire on the American economy by shrinking paychecks”, in CNN Business. From the entry alma mater
  • But Mengzhou’s mayor said last year that the crackdown was necessary and in accordance with the popular will, according to a statement on the Mengzhou government website.2019 May 23, David Stanway, Philip Wen, Stella Qiu, “A pollution crackdown compounds slowdown woes in China's heartland”, in Reuters…. From the entry Mengzhou
  • There has been a crackdown on non-ARPA use of a local ARPA gateway, so I am reluctant to attempt to mail the file to ARPA sites.1983, Donn Seeley, “Source for 'Grab'”, in net.unix-wizards (Usenet). From the entry mail
  • Vice President JD Vance met Saturday with the Vatican's No. 2 official, following a remarkable papal rebuke of the Trump administration’s crackdown on migrants and Vance’s theological justification of it.2025 April 19, Nicole Winfield, “JD Vance visits the Vatican for Easter after papal rebuke over Trump's migrant crackdown”, in The…. From the entry rebuke

Meaning of crackdown

  1. noun Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.

Full definition of crackdown

Questions about crackdown in a sentence

How do you use crackdown in a sentence?
Crackdown is used as a noun. For example: “The brutal crackdown on protests has only served to galvanize the insurrectionary mood in the country.”
What is a short sentence with crackdown?
“During the crackdown, many opponents of the regime were arrested.”
What does crackdown mean?
Crackdown means abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.

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