How to Use afoul of in a Sentence

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• Tuesday's lawsuit is not the first time Visa has run afoul of the Justice Department.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
• Now the 24-year-old singer seems to have run afoul of a rival drug gang.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• Those who run afoul of the rules may get barred from posting.
  — Melina Delkic, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2022
• The plaintiffs say Penn has run afoul of the Civil Rights Act.
  — Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• That’s where Caviglia ran afoul of the rules, which surprised her.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2022
• He was released in 2003 for that crime but again ran afoul of the law soon after.
  — CBS News, 31 July 2023
• Clubs that do run afoul of the law won’t get citations right away.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• Among the passengers: a trans woman who runs afoul of some toughs.
  — Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2023
• The onlookers just watched the raptor try to pick off a duckling and run afoul of the mother duck.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
• Another person who ran afoul of the Swifties is Joe Jonas.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 9 Feb. 2024
• Luna has said one key question is when Tran bought the weapons and whether that would have run afoul of the state’s evolving gun laws at the time.
  — Scott Wilson, Mark Berman and Reis Thebault, Anchorage Daily News, 25 Jan. 2023
• Amid this gloom, there were sparks of cheering news; not all artistic endeavors fell afoul of the strikes.
  — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 15 Dec. 2023
• Running afoul of the agreement is punishable with a fine.
  — Killian Baarlaer, The Enquirer, 14 July 2024
• In that decision, the court ruled that a governor’s veto did not run afoul of the Elections Clause.
  — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2022
• But those who seek to run afoul of Medicare/Medicaid do so at their own peril.
  — Jeff Gorke, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• And the council says policies like those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• Legal experts and tech groups have largely argued that such laws run afoul of the First Amendment.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Rosen insisted that doing so would run afoul of the law and the Constitution.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• This has the twin dangers of poisoning prospective jurors, or running afoul of the Court's desire not to try the case in the media.
  — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 16 Jan. 2024
• The council says policies such as those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
• The lawsuit also asks the court to declare that the city cannot legally withhold the records without running afoul of the state's public records laws.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• Eighteen months ago, the club found itself more than $1 billion in the red and running afoul of Spanish soccer’s break-even rules.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 26 Oct. 2022
• Facebook page recently ran afoul of the First Amendment.
  — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 18 Jan. 2022
• Some in the West have found ways to limit encampments and even clear them out without running afoul of the 9th Circuit rulings.
  — Jennifer Ludden, NPR, 22 Apr. 2024
• He was born in Donelson, a Nashville suburb, and spent his youth running afoul of the law, racking up half a dozen arrests for small-time crimes.
  — Sam Kestenbaum, Harper's Magazine, 21 June 2024
• Amazon said the wheel weights ran afoul of its rules for automotive products and have since been removed.
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 7 July 2023
• Or your proposal to extend your back wall and add a bedroom could run afoul of land-use rules limiting the ratio of floor area to lot size.
  — Jon Healey, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• Niehoff adds that some employers restrict speech outside of the workplace as well, and can do so without running afoul of the First Amendment.
  — Colin Lodewick, Fortune, 20 May 2022
• In some ways, the ruling wasn’t a shock because the state had agreed in court proceedings that the map ran afoul of the state’s anti-diminishment provision.
  — Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 3 Oct. 2023
• In response to the bored faces of the House’s visitors, Lettice begins to spin wildly fanciful – and untrue – tales of the hall’s history, delighting the tourists but running afoul of the rather stern official from the Preservation Trust.
  — Jake Kanter, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024