How to Use lawbreaker in a Sentence

lawbreaker

noun

• He admitted to being a lawbreaker.
• In what is one of the strictest bans on the products, lawbreakers face fines and up to four years in jail.
  — Jennifer McDermott and Carlos Mureithi, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Nov. 2023
• Vegas is lawbreakers – though, to be fair, that’s just Bugsy.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018
• Chaos and protection of lawbreakers breeds fear for us, the law-abiders, and your message stokes those fears.
  — latimes.com, 4 May 2018
• Copperas Cove may be about 250 miles from the nearest beach, but even that distance doesn't put sea-going lawbreakers out of reach from the long ... fin of the law.
  — Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 29 July 2019
• But now that the lawbreakers are from Trump’s inner circle, the president has changed his tune.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 19 Dec. 2017
• The approach of a drug dog might even compel a wavering lawbreaker to give himself up.
  — Chris Roberts, Forbes, 30 May 2021
• County and state officials say their cost is small compared to the cost of locking up young lawbreakers.
  — USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2019
• The life trials of the cursing lawbreaker make an honestly vulgar tale.
  — Armond White, National Review, 20 Apr. 2022
• Lawbreakers must go back: This is for people who feel bad for illegal immigrants who have to go back.
  — Chicago Tribune, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2017
• Are Jewish moms and dads who send their children to religious schools lawbreakers?
  — William McGurn 17, wsj.com, 17 Apr. 2023
• The Police will continue to maintain the city’s public safety and bring all lawbreakers to justice.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• On the criminal-justice side, law enforcement is in an arms race with lawbreakers.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2014
• The premise of my first book (Hello, Shadowlands) is that lawbreakers tend to be rational actors, not just black-hearted ghouls.
  — Patrick Winn, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024
• Clemency is a form of mercy by a government toward a lawbreaker.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, sun-sentinel.com, 3 Oct. 2019
• Known lawbreaker Hunter Biden’s corruption knows no bounds.
  — Jessica Chasmar, Fox News, 14 July 2023
• The two candidates who see Trump as a lawbreaker were roundly booed for their views: Hutchinson and Christie, who offered an extended tribute to Pence.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 24 Aug. 2023
• The problem is the direct result of failing to deal correctly with campus lawbreakers.
  — WSJ, 22 Aug. 2017
• The gun-toting men wearing headgear and zipping through the streets of Covington on bicycles are not lawbreakers.
  — Kim Chatelain, NOLA.com, 30 Jan. 2018
• The Kremlin has portrayed Navalny and his supporters as lawbreakers and tools of the West, acting to destabilize Russia.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 6 Mar. 2024
• In his book, Biden writes that some parts of that crime bill always troubled him, including its three-strikes-and-you’re-out provision that sent some federal lawbreakers to prison for life.
  — Matthew Cooper, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2017
• Abbott has said only lawbreakers have anything to worry about.
  — Paul J. Weber, The Seattle Times, 26 June 2017
• The lawbreaker-as-hero model rings differently in an age of Trumpian politics and practices, of open insurrection and a near-coup.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 26 May 2022
• The attorney general, who is tasked with bringing charges against likely lawbreakers, brought charges.
  — Mark Joseph Stern, Slate Magazine, 29 Mar. 2017
• Abbott has called some protests to SB4 fearmongering and says only lawbreakers have anything to worry about.
  — Paul J. Weber, star-telegram, 14 July 2017
• Police said earlier the requirement aims to prevent lawbreakers from joining the march.
  — Kanis Leung, ajc, 26 Mar. 2023
• Neither do the members of Congress who have spent so many years railing about lawbreakers instead of fixing a dysfunctional system.
  — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 1 Mar. 2017
• Republican state representatives showed up to a June meeting to blast her as a lawbreaker.
  — Hannah Natanson, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Sep. 2023
• Also there’s a low-gravity area, which means Overwatch is basically Lawbreakers at this point.
  — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, 2 June 2017
• If stopping lawbreakers in their tracks means breaching an embassy, then so be it, Ecuadorians interviewed over the weekend told The Associated Press.
  — Regina Garcia Cano and Gabriela Molina, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Dec 2024