How to Use fall/run afoul of in a Sentence

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• Now the 24-year-old singer seems to have run afoul of a rival drug gang.
  — Wire Services, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The plaintiffs say Penn has run afoul of the Civil Rights Act.
  — Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
• Clubs that do run afoul of the law won’t get citations right away.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• Since then, the wolves have roamed and run afoul of ranchers whose livestock has been killed.
  — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 31 July 2024
• Moreno stands in a long line of Chicago alderman who have run afoul of the law.
  — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2021
• The onlookers just watched the raptor try to pick off a duckling and run afoul of the mother duck.
  — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
• Viking's Orion is the second cruise ship to fall afoul of New Zealand officials in the past month.
  — CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
• Musk could fall afoul of federal laws That doesn’t mean Musk is entirely in the clear.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
• Tuesday's lawsuit is not the first time Visa has run afoul of the Justice Department.
  — Scott Horsley, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
• But those who seek to run afoul of Medicare/Medicaid do so at their own peril.
  — Jeff Gorke, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• And the council says policies like those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
• According to the report, Guy said this could run afoul of state law given the type of precinct paper that was approved.
  — Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2021
• Do those donations fall afoul of Times guidelines in rule or in spirit?
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 July 2024
• Rosen insisted that doing so would run afoul of the law and the Constitution.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
• The goal is to build AI tools to help artists create new music that doesn't run afoul of copyright, name and likeness rights, the companies said.
  — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
• The council says policies such as those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
• Trying to claim income that wasn’t actually a tip as a tip would no doubt run afoul of the tax code anyway.
  — Joe Moglia, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
• Many users have blasted both ideas, and the block overhaul may run afoul of guidelines for the Apple and Google app stores, both of which require products to have a block feature.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2024
• Unfortunately, even the most diligent of hikers can run afoul of this threat.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
• Bacon threw out the idea of Austin giving service members unpaid leave to ensure the policy does not run afoul of the Hyde Amendment.
  — David Sivak, Washington Examiner, 13 July 2023
• But Rau-Lehmann, 23, didn’t want to run afoul of the rules, and there’s already plenty of nervous chatter among the Swift fan base about whether people standing up to dance will block anyone’s view.
  — Michael Cavna, Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2023
• Lake is only the latest Republican to fall afoul of Petty and his estate.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
• To fall afoul of the king can be swiftly lethal, and the king has spies everywhere, overseen by his utterly sinister chief of police, Reynie.
  — Samuel Ashworth, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• Some whistleblower lawyers are encouraging more reporting of any agreement that might fall afoul of the spirit of the law.
  — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
• Biden is a pro-labor president, while Tesla is non-union and has run afoul of federal labor laws.
  — Mackenzie Sigalos,rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
• Cailee Spaeny gives Ripley vibes as part of a group of young explorers trying to leave their world who run afoul of freaky Facehuggers and a chilling Xenomorph.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
• But some of the businesses have run afoul of the law, even as states such as New Mexico have legalized marijuana.
  — Emily Feng, NPR, 24 June 2024
• The new laws have been closely-watched by the music industry, over concerns that aspects of concerts could run afoul of broad new restrictions.
  — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
• Even the most sensible public safety laws might fall afoul of NRA lawsuits and right-wing judges claiming knowledge of colonial-era laws.
  — Michael Waldman, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2023
• The case alleges the restrictions violate the teachers’ First Amendment rights and run afoul of a federal civil-rights law.
  — Dara Kam, Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024