How to Use moratorium in a Sentence

moratorium

noun

• The treaty calls for a nuclear testing moratorium.
• The tribe rebuked Biden in the first days of his term over the oil and gas moratorium.
  — Brady McCombs, ajc, 13 Oct. 2022
• The moratorium runs through the end of this year, when Dunne, Portsmouth’s mayor, hopes to get some guidance from the state.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• Naturally, the moratorium is a good thing for the future of the species.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
• Many deals will be reached in the first hours of free agency, but teams can’t sign players until the free agent moratorium ends at 9:01 a.m.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 June 2024
• And then there's a couple that just to have outright moratoriums.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• If a pause is not put in place soon, the letter said governments should step in and create a moratorium.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• One of the main reasons for the moratorium was to reduce air pollution from the idling vehicles.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• Throughout the health crisis — amid moratoriums and federal rent aid — that rate was cut in about half.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
• Here’s the most common reason to act now: Since the start of the moratorium, up to 30 million borrowers have gotten a new loan servicer.
  — Janet Novack, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• Some in National City raised those same complaints, with calls to the City Council to issue a moratorium on drive-thrus.
  — Tammy Murga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Dec. 2022
• While the moratorium was never put in place, the letter fueled the debate on whether AI’s progress needs to be slowed and how involved governments need to be.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 15 Jan. 2024
• The moratorium approved Wednesday on new STRs outside the coastal zone will be effective in 30 days.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Dec. 2023
• The judge's order out of Texas will put more pressure on the Biden administration to yet again extend the moratorium through much of 2023.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 11 Nov. 2022
• Teams can now negotiate deals with free agents during the moratorium and agree to deals.
  — Marlowe Alter, Detroit Free Press, 1 July 2023
• Daniel said a moratorium sets off red flags when trying to secure financing for a project.
  — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• The moratorium on processing the Employee Retention Credit will last through at least the end of the year and covers all new claims.
  — Leada Gore | [e-mail], al, 15 Sep. 2023
• The group added that landlords were still reeling from the pandemic-era eviction moratorium and rent freeze.
  — Sandhya Kambhampati, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• It’s been more than 30 years since a moratorium on cod fishing struck a heavy blow to the economy of Fogo Island, off the coast of Newfoundland.
  — Travel + Leisure Editors, Travel + Leisure, 8 Apr. 2024
• Paloma explains: The moratorium simply gives tenants a defense to use when a case is filed.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2023
• Cotter said the ranch’s legal team believes the moratorium was not legal.
  — Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 5 May 2024
• That will probably result in longer wait times once the payment moratorium ends.
  — Danielle Douglas-Gabriel, Washington Post, 2 June 2023
• The center noted its list of locales banning marijuana may not be complete, and the length of sales moratoriums vary from a few months to a year.
  — Mariyam Muhammad, The Enquirer, 13 June 2024
• The state has not executed anyone since 2018, when a de-facto moratorium was put in place.
  — Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 30 Jan. 2024
• The Kings finalized the agreement with Monk after the moratorium ended at 9:01 a.m.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 6 July 2024
• When the council here voted for the temporary moratorium on large-scale solar projects, Clyde Cooper was the lone no vote on the seven-member body.
  — Xander Peters, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 May 2023
• Mena is also watching his debt pile up, with the threat of imminent foreclosure if the VA moratorium ends.
  — Quil Lawrence, NPR, 7 June 2024
• Adding to the debt burden, more than half of those student loan borrowers added a new credit card during the moratorium, while 36% took on an auto loan!
  — Terry Savage, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
• Some candidates are calling for a moratorium on creating any more innovation schools for at least the next few years and instead focus on supporting the full rollout of the Rebuilding Stronger plan.
  — Caroline Beck, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Oct. 2024
• Newsom issued a moratorium on them in 2019, meaning the death chamber would not reopen at least during his administration.
  — Calmatters, The Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024