How to Use clampdown in a Sentence

clampdown

1 of 2 noun

• But the clampdown was years in the making, and many signals were missed.
  — New York Times, 8 July 2021
• It is seen as the ruling Law and Justice party's clampdown on the top court.
  — Vanessa Gera, Fox News, 4 July 2018
• Protests in Kashmir were met with a months-long clampdown.
  — Jonah Blank, The Atlantic, 10 June 2021
• But a too-tough clampdown could also alienate users and drive them away.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2021
• These are a far cry from the go-go days before the pandemic and Beijing’s 2021 clampdown on Big Tech.
  — Ye Xie, Fortune, 16 May 2023
• But data show that despite the clampdown, the H-1B’s charm holds steadfast.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 1 Nov. 2020
• The resurgence and the resulting clampdown sent a shudder through Wall Street.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 29 Oct. 2020
• But that aura has faded over the last four years, which could explain a clampdown ahead of the election on the media and critics.
  — Maggie Michael, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2018
• As a result of the clampdown, most of Hong Kong’s outspoken activists are now in jail or in self-exile abroad.
  — Zen Soo, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Apr. 2021
• But now this pool of foreign teachers is feeling the pain of China’s tech clampdown.
  — Jane Li, Quartz, 13 Aug. 2021
• Both Maxwell and Kim said that trend is unlikely to stop, even in the midst of North Korea's heightened clampdown.
  — NBC News, 6 July 2021
• Amid a clampdown on Russian money in Britain, Mr. Johnson may have to look closer to home.
  — Shafi Musaddique, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Mar. 2022
• The threat of a new DOJ clampdown is hardly the only menace Boeing is facing.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
• Drones have been banned from flying over a large part of central London and Windsor, as part of a clampdown on air traffic in the areas.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 18 Sep. 2022
• This reaction led to a complete clampdown on the media, with red lines drawn on how and where to report on the pandemic.
  — Jianli Yang, National Review, 14 Apr. 2021
• The clampdown begins The unrest in Manipur began on April 27.
  — Gerry Shih, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
• The city’s clampdown on Airbnbs and other short-term rentals seems to be part of what’s sending interest in hotels soaring.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
• Only patients who were in their third trimesters when the clampdown occurred could still have their babies at Oasis.
  — Bracey Harris, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2023
• The clampdown over the past year has shaken many businesses to their core, and may also be acting as a drag on economic growth.
  — Laura He, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
• Mohseni said a wholesale clampdown on the news media would also prove difficult in the era of TikTok and Twitter.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2021
• And, as usual, some of McCarthy’s fiercest opponents are now the loudest critics of the clampdown on devices.
  — Matt Laslo, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2023
• If this clampdown escalates then bitcoin will stay aloft and so too will the other cryptos.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 15 Sep. 2021
• The clampdown followed a weekend of demonstrations outside the White House.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2020
• Call it a prelude to the Mavericks’ third-quarter clampdown.
  — Dallas News, 25 Apr. 2022
• Alarm bells were raised on social media this week of a possible clampdown.
  — Catherine Thorbecke, ABC News, 12 Mar. 2021
• Bold writers can draw on the daily chronicles of hypocrisy and clampdowns recorded by a lively press.
  — L.t. | Kampala, The Economist, 23 Aug. 2019
• With the regulatory clampdowns out of the way Ant can spend more time building its business and even revive its IPO.
  — Lulu Yilun Chen, Fortune, 8 July 2023
• Other countries — and US states — have been vague about what would be enough to trigger another clampdown.
  — Nick Perry, BostonGlobe.com, 11 May 2020
• Hasina presided over the removal of key democratic guardrails, the restriction of the independence of the judiciary, and a clampdown on civil society and the press.
  — Ali Riaz, Foreign Affairs, 6 Aug. 2024
• Munira Mistry, 43, fears losing her teaching job at a college in Toronto by December as the government clampdown prompts a cost-cutting drive.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune Europe, 17 Aug. 2024

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clamp down

2 of 2 verb

• The video begins with the gator clamped down on the torso of the snake.
  — Sage Marshall, Field & Stream, 22 June 2023
• And on the back end, Sauce Gardner is a star and the rest of the secondary can clamp down.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 7 Nov. 2022
• The Hawks hit a pair of 3-pointers to start the game to make it 6-0, but the Pacers clamped down from there.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Jan. 2024
• There's plush padding on the earcups and headband, and the whole build doesn't clamp down too hard on the ears.
  — Jeff Dunn, Ars Technica, 24 Aug. 2022
• Half of the dead gator is seen hanging out of the giant gator’s mouth as his jaws clamp down.
  — Garfield Hylton, orlandosentinel.com, 4 Oct. 2021
• The clamp down on the carpal bone hitting the cheek first has got to be zero tolerance.
  — Mark Anderson, ajc, 15 Feb. 2023
• Alabama clamped down on both the Blue Raiders’ ground and passing game.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• The Bulldogs are looking to clamp down the 1-seed heading into the four-team Playoff.
  — Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
• When rates soared, businesses sought to clamp down on vendors but didn’t know where to start, Kong said.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 30 Jan. 2024
• And over the years, courts and some states have clamped down on various aspects of those processes.
  — Rebecca Griesbach | [e-mail], al, 29 June 2023
• The clamp down defense was aggressive, fierce and hard-hitting.
  — Robert Fenbers, cleveland, 6 Sep. 2022
• But clamping down on the evasion is difficult in the opaque world of merchant shipping.
  — Tim Lister, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
• Perhaps one of the hobbyists did something the company didn't like, and this is a means of clamping down.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 31 July 2024
• The government can, in a type of contagious crisis, clamp down.
  — Nisa Khan, Detroit Free Press, 9 July 2020
• Florida’s defense clamped down after that, allowing just one shot on goal the rest of the way.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
• The Lakers got a massive three-pointer from Reddish in the fourth to start a 13-0 run that closed the door and ensured the win, the Lakers defense again clamping down.
  — Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 10 Dec. 2023
• Netflix’s previous ambivalence to this has changed, and the clamp down is set to begin.
  — Callum McLennan, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023
• And while he wasn’t outed, the Depression and the war saw a clamping down on anything non-normative.
  — Dan Avery, NBC News, 7 June 2023
• Rome, home to some of the world’s most popular tourist sites, has been in a battle to clamp down on obnoxious visitors.
  — Andrew Jeong, Anchorage Daily News, 28 June 2023
• Brembo calipers—four-piston in front and two-piston in rear—clamp down on these rotors, and the pads offer more surface area as well.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 29 June 2023
• Scandal is allowed to emerge, where it was clamped down on tightly until about the mid-‘50s or even into the ‘60s when they finally got rid of the Hays Code.
  — Martin Lerma, Robb Report, 14 Aug. 2024
• The crushing muscles of mastication clamp down to form the hallmark of the disease, lockjaw.
  — Rebecca Kreston, Discover Magazine, 29 Sep. 2015
• But in Thursday’s blog post discussing the results of the Sept. 10th summit, the company stopped short of clamping down on the Windows kernel.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 12 Sep. 2024
• Demonstrations have subsided over the past two nights as more police have been deployed to clamp down on the unrest.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 3 July 2023
• This time, the Clippers learned their third-quarter lesson, their defense clamping down.
  — Andrew Greif, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2023
• At the same time, the security services may seek more control and clamp down on society.
  — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
• Michigan scores 28 seconds into the quarter but IU clamps down and the Wolverines go scoreless for 5 minutes.
  — Scott Horner, The Indianapolis Star, 17 Feb. 2023
• And so there’s always a constant battle to get Twitter to clamp down on hate speech, very often violent hate speech and fake news.
  — Barbara Ortutay, ajc, 14 May 2022
• Her previous remarks had been interpreted by some that the city would clamp down on car use during the period.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 11 Sep. 2024
• Meanwhile, one of the biggest mistakes the government made three years ago was to clamp down on leading technology companies such as Alibaba and Tencent.
  — Nick Sargen, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024