Example sentences for: outlawed

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

  • On Sept. 1, school beatings were banned from Britain's private schools, bringing them in line with state-run schools where caning was outlawed 13 years ago.

  • Other states have blocked gambling--as Alabama did by defeating a lottery referendum this week--but this marks the first time in 50 years that a state has outlawed gambling and uprooted a living industry.

  • A writer visits rural Utah communities where polygamy has long been officially outlawed but is quietly tolerated.

  • Grown in India, it was delivered to Canton, and while China outlawed the trade in 1799, local Cantonese officials were always willing to look the other way for “squeeze money” (a term still used in Hong Kong).

  • Polytheism, however, persisted until 529, when an edict by Emperor Justinian outlawed the last “pagan” temples and closed the famous Athenian schools of philosophy.


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