How to use curfew in a sentence

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• When she comes home I will certainly be giving her a speaking to about breaking curfew.From the entry give someone a speaking to
• The curfew is effective at midnight.From the entry effective
• Because of the curfew, the junior-highers will have to leave at 9:45.1945 December 14, “Party Attire Must Include Bright Socks”, in The Evening Tribune, volume XLVII, number 294, Albert Lea, Minn., →OCLC…. From the entry junior-higher
• Stroke by stroke, the great familiar monody of that incomparable curfew rose and fell in the stillness.1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson. From the entry monody
• While Jenin was starving under curfew, Nazarenes were only twenty minutes away, watching televised footage of their neighbours ‘in solidarity’.2023, Isabella Hammad, Enter Ghost, Jonathan Cape, page 61. From the entry Nazarene
• Tonight’s sumptuous two-hour gig butts up hard against the curfew.2021 September 25, Kitty Empire, “Róisín Murphy review – a triumphant dancefloor workout”, in The Guardian. From the entry vogue
• Not the curfew bit but Mum being Mumly.2014, Sarra Manning, The Worst Girlfriend in the World, Atom, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN. From the entry mumly
• The article explained that it was because the Israeli curfew did not allow officials to properly bury the dead.2009 October 29, J. David, “The Propaganda Campaign of Lies against Israel that began in the Fall of 2000”, in The Jews, Nationalism, and…. From the entry holocaust
• Several years ago Ernie was arrested for crossing the beach after curfew and served 58 days in jail.1987 October, Charles E. Cobb, Jr., “North Carolina's Outer Banks”, in National Geographic, volume 172, number 4, page 508. From the entry serve
• 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
• His argument was that the brotherhood didn’t really want to street race but did want all-night drag strips which the curfew laws prohibited.1991, H. F. Moorhouse, Driving Ambitions: An Analysis of the American Hot Rod Enthusiasm, Manchester; New York, N.Y.: Manchester…. From the entry street race
• The curfew decree comes as the latest of a list of steadily tightening home front controls ordered since the German breakthru in Belgium.1945 February 20, “Byrnes Clamps War Curfew on Amusement”, in Tribune, Tribune. From the entry breakthru
• The entire police force has in effect been trespassed from a Wellington property to stop officers checking whether a heavy-sleeping offender is complying with an overnight bail curfew.2012 June 21, Greg O'Connor, “Criminal trespasses police officers”, in Stuff. From the entry trespass
• Israeli soldiers . . . impose the curfews as collective punishment or as a means to head off violent protest, or simply to show who's boss.1989 June 24, Alan Cowell, “Coping With Curfew in Gaza”, in New York Times, retrieved 11 Jun 2015. From the entry show who's boss

Meaning of curfew

1. noun Any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.
2. noun A regulation requiring loud or disruptive activities such as concerts and sporting events to end by a certain time.
3. noun The time when such restriction begins.

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How do you use curfew in a sentence?

Curfew is used as a noun. For example: “The city has been reported calm after a curfew was imposed.”

What is a short sentence with curfew?

“The curfew is effective at midnight.”

What does curfew mean?

Curfew means any regulation requiring people to be off the streets and in their homes by a certain time.