How to Use enforcer in a Sentence

enforcer

noun

• The New York enforcer just finished a 25-year stint in prison.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
• The courts and enforcers adopted that standard over many decades.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
• Spoelstra for being the enforcer to see the vision through.
  — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
• Cote was an enforcer—a tough guy whose job was to keep the other team's players in check.
  — Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
• Of course, the consequence of that is the police do their bidding and are kind of their enforcers.
  — Los Angeles Times En Español, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• There's the brains behind the operation and then there's the enforcer.
  — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2023
• No law enforcers were harmed in the Nashville shooting.
  — J.d. Crowe | [e-mail], al, 29 Mar. 2023
• Both districts have sought to transform the role to be more of a mentor than an enforcer.
  — NBC News, 4 June 2020
• In some ways, as chief enforcer, Ratzinger served as bad cop to the good cop played by John Paul, who charmed the world with his humor and warmth.
  — Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
• In the wake of the ruling, FTC enforcers remained optimistic.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
• Clark played the run and the pass well, but Elliott, who played for the first time since Week 3, was an enforcer after the Chargers made catches.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 17 Oct. 2021
• Cross was an enforcer in the middle of the Terrapins’ defense.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
• Lloyd said Goodson is the enforcer and is always ready to hit somebody.
  — Jimmy Lay, al, 9 Aug. 2022
• The match led them to a mafia enforcer who was killed a year later, the Taunton Daily Gazette reported.
  — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2021
• But Chase offered him Paulie Walnuts, an enforcer who could be icy when a job was at hand.
  — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 8 July 2022
• The code enforcer’s warning came as a complete shock and Sean first thought that the town might grant an exemption.
  — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• Still, that doesn’t mean Foligno and Hartman will be enforcers.
  — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2019
• Next to the office is the room where Mr. Okumu, known to residents as the center’s enforcer, lived with his wife, its cook.
  — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
• Doc's teen daughter is kidnapped by a vicious enforcer (Beau Knapp) and heads roll on the way to getting her back.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
• The court ruled that the Water Works could not be both the owner and enforcer of a conservation easement.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 24 Aug. 2023
• My peers of enforcers have become statistics and the N.H.L. is in denial.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
• Again and again, the state is invoked in Pistor’s analysis as the ultimate enforcer of the law.
  — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
• Inside the vehicles were members of La Línea, a gang that served as enforcers for the Juárez cartel.
  — Ieva Jusionyte, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
• The buzz: This one’s a documentary from 2016 looking at the changing roles of enforcers in the modern NHL.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2020
• Will Casey, once a victim of that culture, become one of its enforcers or one of its challengers?
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 July 2019
• But during a free-speech conflagration, who should play the role of enforcer?
  — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• Saban’s enforcer, Scott O’Brien, soon visited Egues and told him to never greet the coach.
  — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
• The group also meets Mercer, who's the chief enforcer of the Commonwealth and an imposing force.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
• The public, and law enforcers, often wrongfully think that cash bail is a form of punishment.
  — Bill Laytner, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
• This isn’t even the first time in the last few years that Neeson has played a grizzled enforcer who turns against his employer after being diagnosed with a severe neurodegenerative disease.
  — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024