How to Use enforce in a Sentence

enforce

verb

• Police will be enforcing the parking ban.
• But the platforms have struggled to enforce their Covid rules.
  — Tiffany Hsu, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2022
• The court will decide whether to allow the state to enforce the law while the case proceeds in Burke’s court.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 26 Dec. 2022
• The sense that the Court may be struggling or helpless to enforce ethical norms, underlined by the Dobbs leak, has only grown since then.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• But challenges remain in implementing mandates because businesses often do not enforce them and many people do not comply.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Dec. 2022
• As the city begins to enforce these rules in earnest, the welcoming visage of a rasta Alvin the Chipmunk will begin to disappear from our streetscape.
  — Goodbye 2022 Dec. 26, Curbed, 26 Dec. 2022
• The proposal comes against the backdrop of Florida’s new homeless law, which requires local governments to enforce bans on camping in public places.
  — Ryan Gillespie, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
• Here is just one: Only a relative handful of government employees actually spend their days writing or even enforcing rules.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
• Police spokesman Tom Ahern said the additional officers are intended not just to enforce laws, but to be a visible presence to help deter crime.
  — Sarah Freishtat, Chicago Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
• Though suburban roads and most major highways in the area reopened Tuesday, there was still a driving ban in Buffalo, and state and military police were assigned to enforce it.
  — Carolyn Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Dec. 2022
• The law passed last year, but a judge had blocked it from being enforced.
  — Hannah Fingerhut The Associated Press, arkansasonline.com, 24 July 2024
• The full power of the state was deployed to spread and enforce that message.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
• Nikon does not enforce any such speed restrictions, so the lens can keep up with the Z 8 and Z 9.
  — PCMAG, 28 Mar. 2024
• The details of what will trigger the penalty — the first of its kind in the U.S. — and when it will be enforced are still being worked out.
  — Rob Nikolewski, The Mercury News, 11 July 2024
• Many, if not all, already do — but such rules were not evenly enforced in the last year.
  — Jaweed Kaleem, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2024
• There’s a push to rethink the need for armed police to enforce street safety rules.
  — Ryan Fonsecastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Jan. 2023
• Time for a new coach who can set and enforce higher standards.
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• The ruling makes clear the ban cannot be enforced until after Aug. 12.
  — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 13 May 2024
• Still, the law hasn't actually been enforced while the case was making its way through the courts.
  — CBS News, 2 May 2024
• And even the chief of the state's prison system has claimed the law would be extremely expensive to enforce.
  — Ray Stern, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
• The force was deployed to help enforce the Dayton Peace Agreement, which ended the war in the country.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 11 July 2023
• That points to what may be the thorniest issue related to Supreme Court ethics: Who would enforce the code, and how?
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• The cost of enforcing new dumping fines will come out of the city’s general fund.
  — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
• More:The law barred Florence mass shooter from having a gun, but who enforces it?
  — Jolene Almendarez, The Enquirer, 10 Oct. 2024
• More:The law barred Florence mass shooter from having a gun, but who enforces it?
  — Quinlan Bentley, The Enquirer, 12 July 2024
• The law was enforced by agents of the school committee — truant officers — with fines of up to $5 per week.
  — Alec MacGillis, ProPublica, 8 Jan. 2024
• Here is where and when those restrictions will be enforced.
  — Claire Reid, Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2024
• In the prison, the guards enforced a strict regime of silence; the detainees spoke to one another only in whispers.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• The bill says the Alabama Department of Revenue shall adopt rules to enforce the cap.
  — Mike Cason | [e-mail], al, 1 June 2023
• Lead pipes were common in Louisiana until September 1988, when the state started enforcing the national ban.
  — Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 25 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024