How to Use curtail in a Sentence

curtail

verb

• The new laws are an effort to curtail illegal drug use.
• School activities are being curtailed due to a lack of funds.
• And Hill doesn’t have any plans to curtail his message on his podcast in the future.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 28 July 2022
• Still, Tamil Nadu has made more progress than other states that have tried to curtail plastic use.
  — New York Times, 31 July 2022
• About half of the states have or are expected to seek to ban or curtail abortions following that ruling.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
• Commercial airline service in the storm’s path is being sharply curtailed.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 9 Oct. 2024
• The family has also had to curtail their expenses for groceries.
  — Shafiq Najib, PEOPLE.com, 17 July 2022
• Nearly two dozen states have passed measures that have curtailed access to the procedure, and 14 of those states have bans with some exceptions.
  — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 7 Oct. 2024
• That in turn would give consumers more choice while curtailing companies' ability to set unreasonably high prices.
  — Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 17 Oct. 2024
• The company also joined the growing ranks for tech companies to curtail hiring plans and look for other belt tightening.
  — Denny Jacob, WSJ, 2 Aug. 2022
• But police jobs were in short supply when state funding was drastically curtailed and McDonnell moved west.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
• Plus, food prices are largely unaffected by current government efforts to curtail spiraling costs.
  — Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 10 Aug. 2022
• Yet this generation was hardly exposed to democracy, which was relentlessly curtailed by the government.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
• The most agile companies are making strategic decisions now, ahead of the dowturn, to curtail future costs and prepare for growth during the recovery period.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 27 July 2022
• Russian forces have made gradual headway in the region while launching missile and rocket attacks to curtail the movements of Ukrainian fighters elsewhere.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer and Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Aug. 2022
• But the shortage of semiconductor chips already has forced auto manufacturers to curtail production, driving up costs for consumers.
  — William A. Galston, WSJ, 26 July 2022
• What happens to the meaning of that when the time gets curtailed?
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 13 Sep. 2024
• People could not protest, and freedom of the press was curtailed.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2024
• Pratt's playing time was curtailed by a deep and talented group of guards ahead of him on the depth chart.
  — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
• Plus, the state was slow to curtail economic aid that expired in many states last year.
  — Jonathan Lansner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Sep. 2023
• The air district’s warehouse rule aims to curtail these emissions by 10% to 15% over five years.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• That still may not be enough to curtail the troubling rise of off-brand obesity drugs.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 16 Aug. 2024
• Hotz has said the county would have had to curtail services if the tax wasn't continued.
  — Thomas Saccente, Arkansas Online, 10 Aug. 2023
• One of the things would be to ask Trump to curtail some of these outdoor activities.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 17 Sep. 2024
• In some states, care for trans adults is also being curtailed.
  — Katie Johnston, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023
• Chief Aparicio said police are aware of the drugs being sold in restrooms and have taken steps to try to curtail the trade.
  — Karol Suárez and Cristopher Rogel, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2022
• The unions are concerned that the November 20 strike threat would prompt the railroads to curtail services as soon as next week.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 9 Nov. 2022
• The most zealous bunny huggers want to stop their hobby, or at least curtail it.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2024
• Refugee and asylum claims, both key targets during Trump’s first term, would once again be sharply curtailed.
  — Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 May 2024
• Furthermore, the Blazers must curtail their turnovers or the Pelicans could run away with this game.
  — oregonlive, 10 Nov. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024