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Example sentences for: rules

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

Otherwise you will not get a good table or will have crumbs brushed into your laptop, even though, strictly speaking, you are abiding by the rules.
It is not as if the Times cleans up Clinton's quotes; the president simply observes the rules of syntax most of the time.
In fact, if I understand the rules, a $17 billion foundation will have to give away roughly $170 million per quarter and, in today's market and economy, ought to have considerably more than that to spend, even after hedging against inflation.
His chief Flytrap sin is believing that normal rules and moral codes don't apply to him, that everyone else exists to do his bidding.
The federal rules of criminal procedure prohibit the government from using any statements made in furtherance of a plea bargain, and Lewinsky's attempt to gain immunity is essentially a form of plea bargaining.