How to Use curfew in a Sentence

curfew

noun

• No one is allowed on the streets during the curfew.
• The town was placed under curfew.
• The teens were stopped by police for violating the curfew.
• The city ordered a curfew soon after the rioting started.
• He has a 10 o'clock curfew.
• Because of the curfew, most of my drawings are from my apartment window.
  — Sergiy Maidukov, The New Yorker, 1 May 2022
• The checkpoints slow our progress, urgency instilled by the coming sunset and darkness, when curfew sets in each night.
  — Michael G. Seamans, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2022
• Members of Greenpeace killed climate deniers, and police shot curfew breakers.
  — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
• Authorities swiftly deployed armed troops in many parts of the country and imposed a curfew until Wednesday.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 2022
• In Kyiv, the curfew will run from 11 p.m. on Saturday until Sunday at 5 a.m.
  — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 23 Apr. 2022
• Hrytsiv, who planned to pick them up, was on her way back from meeting with Kersch-Kibler in Krakow and ran into the problem of curfew.
  — New York Times, 3 May 2022
• In Kyiv, authorities announced a nighttime curfew from Monday through Friday this week.
  — Washington Post, 25 Apr. 2022
• The celebrations took place under a curfew barring residents of all 24 of Ukraine's regions from going outside overnight.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 25 Apr. 2022
• Municipal authorities stopped short of a tighter curfew but reminded residents that mass events are prohibited.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2022
• In most African countries, where the informal sector is the main source of employment for most, millions lost their jobs during lockdowns and times of curfew, with almost no social safety nets to fall back on.
  — Ciku Kimeria, Quartz, 6 May 2022
• Some commenters on a Facebook post that went viral are outraged at a curfew on cuddles, while others marvel at an airport still having a free drop-off area at all, given the general rise in fees and fines.
  — Maureen O'Hare, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
• But the 30-day curfew, Hardy said, was at least a place to start.
  — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
• The city went as far as to impose a curfew last weekend, for the third year in a row.
  — Claire Pedersen, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
• The cat did not fall for the trap before the volunteers left to beat a 10 p.m. curfew.
  — Karin Brulliard and Anumita Kaur, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
• Despite the curfew, young people went to the city’s dance clubs.
  — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
• The app doesn’t have a curfew, so a teen could take a trip in the middle of the night without parental consent.
  — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
• The city declared a state of emergency and put a curfew in place.
  — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
• The sky west of the city, which was under an overnight curfew, was lit up by an orange glow.
  — Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2022
• Last year, two shootings on Ocean Drive led the city to set a midnight curfew.
  — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023
• On the fourth night of the protests, Evans and a group of cops were pursuing a rowdy crowd flouting the city’s curfew.
  — Jamie Thompson, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• The youth has been in the care of his mother, with GPS monitoring and a curfew.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2023
• There's checkpoints, police stops and checks you, and curfew lifts at 5:00 in the morning.
  — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2023
• The city’s curfew prohibits those under the age of 18 from being on the streets after 10 p.m.
  — Paige Fry, Chicago Tribune, 27 Oct. 2022
• The fight happened within a time frame allowed by the curfew law.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 15 Aug. 2022
• The actors and their audience didn’t have much time to mill around: curfew was at eleven.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024