Example sentences for: curb

How can you use “curb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After a routine audit of the departmental phone bill, GMU discovered the calls and found them to be in violation of NCAA rules intended to curb recruitment abuses.

  • But it said that this scandal was "not nearly as shocking as his decision four years ago to drop BBC news from his Hong Kong satellite service to appease China," and concluded that Britain didn't need legislation to curb Murdoch's media power but needed "politicians with the guts to snap their fingers at bullies."

  • In big families, the cook customarily went to her own garden or to the curb market , now called the farmers' marker , to lay in a big supply of vegetables and fruit.

  • Sanford Dole, head of a missionary family, and others led a successful movement to curb Kalakaua’s powers.

  • Some city delivery routes, called "curb line routes," use vehicles to provide curbside delivery to a mail receptacle along the curb as is done by rural routes.


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