How to Use deterrent in a Sentence

deterrent

adjective

• The pain of it should be deterrent enough to never make the mistake twice.
  — Lydia Lohrer, Detroit Free Press, 30 Sep. 2017
• The goal is to send a deterrent message: Don’t even try this, don’t even leave.
  — Washington Post, 29 Dec. 2019
• The deterrent effect of this penalty will be close to nil.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• But so far, these measures don't appear to have had a deterrent effect.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 15 Jan. 2024
• The only real question is how big this deterrent effect will be.
  — Tom Spiggle, Forbes, 15 June 2022
• Rhoades said sworn police officers have a deterrent effect on crime — for instance, to keep watch when gang members come in the ER.
  — jsonline.com, 15 Dec. 2020
• Similar to deterrent polish, the taste of hand lotion isn’t any better.
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 22 May 2024
• Once a sizeable segment of any species realizes the lack of actual harm, its deterrent effect may wane.
  — Anthony Trotter, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2023
• State Department officials said the threat of sanctions had been deterrent enough.
  — Associated Press, Houston Chronicle, 29 Jan. 2018
• Experts say these outcomes have had a deterrent effect.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
• And there have been reports that the United States and the world’s other nuclear powers are dusting off Cold War deterrent protocols.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2017
• Experts said those decisions, plus the deterrent effect of the aggressive security response, may be enough to avoid a repeat of the chaos at the U.S. Capitol.
  — Washington Post, 16 Jan. 2021
• The rapprochement came at a crucial time when the U.S. needed to build a deterrent presence amid growing security threats in the region, Romualdez said.
  — Jim Gomez, ajc, 20 Nov. 2022
• The threat of an explanation may be deterrent enough: this one goes on for two more excruciating paragraphs, and by the end her son seems thoroughly baffled.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Among the many, many issues our forebears didn’t worry about were the deterrent effects of capital punishment and the ideal attributes of a firefighter.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
• Cases like Chauvin’s could also have a deterrent effect, some experts said.
  — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2021
• And when perpetrators walk free, the deterrent effect of the justice system is undermined by a growing awareness that crimes are likely to go unpunished.
  — James Cross, National Review, 27 July 2021
• Nuclear attack could still disrupt a grid, to say nothing of the resulting concurrent deaths, but Chaudhary sees base resilience as its own kind of further deterrent action against such threats.
  — Kelsey D. Atherton, Popular Science, 13 Sep. 2023
• This, the paper’s authors suggest, is because any deterrent effect is outweighed by the effects on misdemeanants’ labor-market prospects.
  — Charles Fain Lehman, National Review, 18 Apr. 2021
• Pitcavage warned that any deterrent effect in the arrests of Capitol attackers will have to be bolstered by follow-through prosecution.
  — cleveland, 21 Feb. 2021
• Singapore authorities say there is a deterrent effect of the death penalty, citing studies that traffickers carry amounts below the threshold that would bring a death penalty.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• People who participated in the Capitol attacks were identified and arrested, and that can have a deterrent effect.
  — Amy Cooter, The Conversation, 15 June 2023
• The $700 billion figure is on the higher end of public estimates of what is plausible, and those larger estimates assume sustained efforts and a deterrent effect of tougher enforcement.
  — Richard Rubin, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2021
• Parity may play a political role by making arms control agreements appear fair or implying the adequacy of a state’s forces, but there is no strategic or deterrent logic to it.
  — Charles L. Glaser, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2023
• Maguire also argued that the deterrent effect of a traffic stop by an officer, and the discretion of an officer in issuing a citation or a warning, are more effective methods of battling the problem.
  — Robert Salonga, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2017
• The secrecy undercuts the deterrent effect on officer behavior that many had presumed body cameras would produce.
  — Eric Umansky, ProPublica, 14 Dec. 2023
• Reality: Many experts say that there’s little evidence for a deterrent effect.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2024
• Mitchell has portrayed herself as a county attorney who is tough on retail crime, arguing that more aggressive prosecution tactics will have a deterrent effect.
  — Jimmy Jenkins, The Arizona Republic, 30 July 2024
• However, Russia's nuclear cruise and torpedo weapons are, from an arms control standpoint, not exactly deterrent-focused weapons.
  — Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 1 Mar. 2018
• Despite such intuition, and despite the huge investments made, overwhelming evidence indicates that CCTV equipment has, in fact, little deterrent effect.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 May 2016

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024