How to Use enjoin in a Sentence

enjoin

verb

• The judge enjoined them from selling the property.
• He was enjoined by his conscience from telling a lie.
• Fubo overcame difficult odds in convincing Garnett to enjoin Venu Sports.
  — Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 16 Aug. 2024
• Mal Bellairs had a rich, deep voice, and clearly enjoined the encounter.
  — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• In the Catholic moral system there is a list of works of mercy enjoined on believers.
  — John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• Our faith, in its wisdom, enjoins us to be the enemy of the oppressor and an aid to the oppressed.
  — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
• The funding proposal failed to enjoin the full support of the council.
  — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2017
• We are enjoined to seek and create the change that our world so desperately needs.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017
• The rule was first enjoined by courts, but the injunction was lifted by the Supreme Court on September 11.
  — Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2019
• His lawyers also were enjoined not to suggest a reason for the shooting.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• The preliminary injunction asks the court to enjoin the law.
  — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2021
• The court enjoined the Neuschwanders from renting their property on a short-term basis.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
• The archives faces a Nov. 12 deadline to release a first batch of information, which Trump has asked Chutkan to enjoin.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
• The two appeals courts had enjoined the entire ban, meaning that aliens had to be admitted as before.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
• Like the climate change activists who delayed last week's Harvard-Yale football game and chanted it at the voice enjoining them to leave the field.
  — CBS News, 1 Dec. 2019
• The county gets the court to enjoin this new tax and continues to collect the first occupational tax.
  — Heather Gann | [e-mail], al, 7 Oct. 2022
• Furthermore, Christian husbands were enjoined to love their wives and be faithful to them.
  — Charlotte Allen, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
• That’s the finding of a federal judge who has enjoined a law to silence groups that run pregnancy help centers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2023
• While the suits are being filed separately, lawyers intend to enjoin them at a later stage, Scharg said.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2022
• Owens rejected that assertion and enjoined the new law, which was to take effect Sunday.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• Plaintiffs of course challenged EO-2, and it was also enjoined — first in district courts and then in federal courts of appeal.
  — David French, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
• Plaintiffs in the case have asked the court to enjoin the Forest Service from spilling retardant into waterways.
  — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
• When the music is enjoined to shift the production into high gear, the ensuing reverie doesn’t always feel earned.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• If the case proceeds, a defendant might be able to file a lawsuit in federal court to enjoin proceedings in the state court, Chandler said.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2021
• The other striking feature of SCIOs is that they are expressly enjoined to break into new high-tech sectors.
  — The Economist, 20 July 2017
• The text then enjoins the meditator to pay attention to lots of other things—feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells, and much, much more (yes, including pus and blood).
  — Robert Wright, WIRED, 12 Aug. 2017
• On May 24, a complaint signed by Kennedy asked the federal court to enjoin Wallace from interfering with the students.
  — Patricia Sullivan, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
• Nor do courts engage in prior restraint, enjoining speech before it has been made.
  — John W. Dean, CNN, 6 June 2017
• Columbia, for example, didn’t own theaters at the time, so it wasn’t enjoined from acquiring them in the future.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• Fubo points to no case where a joint venture with characteristics like these has been enjoined as violating antitrust laws.
  — Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024