Example sentences for: outlaw

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

  • Celebrities exhumed in the 1990s include Czar Nicholas II, outlaw Jesse James, civil rights martyr Medgar Evers, and President Zachary Taylor.

  • You lower your voice, pull it back into your throat so that it's breathy, verging on a rasp and yet smooth, almost plangent, then expel the line from The Outlaw

  • In Oregon and South Dakota, voters have gathered enough signatures to place a constitutional amendment on the November 2000 ballot to outlaw "video lottery."

  • While we're at it, why not outlaw all words and expressions we've purloined over the years from specialized fields--such as melancholy, hectic, chronic , and allergic (medicine); leading question , time is of the essence (law); by and large, high and dry, slush fund, round robin, aloof (sailing); ego, extrovert, complex, phobia, psyche, depression, trauma, subconscious (same place as empathy); and many more of what Fowler called popularized technicalities.

  • Second, reducing the rate of HIV transmission is in any event not the only social goal worth pursuing: If it were, we'd outlaw sex entirely.


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