How to Use crackdown in a Sentence

crackdown

1 of 2 noun
  • Companies that pollute are the target of a new crackdown.
  • What to know about the crackdown.
    — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The crackdown is part of a broader scheme.
    — Lizz Winstead, Time, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Wednesday’s is at least the fifth death linked to the crackdowns.
    — Tim Sullivan, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
  • The arrest comes amid a crackdown on gambling dens in the city.
    — Jason Green, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
  • Why did Gilbert police wait three years for a crackdown?
    — Robert Anglen, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The crackdown may only be starting in earnest.
    — Juanita Goebertus, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
  • That led to a crackdown in the city and a new system to regulate them.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Hong Kong might be about to engage in a claw machine crackdown.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2024
  • At least one social dancing event was canceled in the wake of the crackdown.
    — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Only days ago, the worst of China's tech crackdown seemed to be over.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 6 May 2022
  • But many now fear that the arrests portend a broader crackdown.
    — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
  • SpaceX didn’t provide details about its role in the crackdown.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026
  • Of course, Filmsaaz has followed the crackdown on protests back home.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The death was at least the fifth linked to immigration crackdowns.
    — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Recent years have seen a legal crackdown on the issue.
    — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
  • At least one storeowner voiced his support for the crackdown.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • But Stern, of course, knows a thing or two about FCC crackdowns.
    — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The crackdown of governments on their own people?
    — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Uber is making some exceptions amid the crackdown.
    — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026
  • With any luck, the crackdown will reduce the number of spam calls in the US.
    — PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
  • In the face of a deadly regime crackdown, protests died down in Iran earlier this year.
    — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
  • The mass arrest marks the largest sweep yet in the crackdown at US worksites.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
  • Letlow framed the effort as both a crackdown and a fact-finding mission.
    — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2026
  • The bloody crackdown had a lasting impact on Walz, who saw it as all the more reason to go.
    — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • This is not a crackdown on all E-bikes, so here is a breakdown of the differences.
    — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 8 May 2026
  • But the result will be an unstable mix of crackdowns, loopholes, and crises.
    — Jonathan Portes, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The killing has become a flash point in a wider crackdown across the Persian Gulf.
    — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Thousands of demonstrators were killed in the crackdown.
    — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
  • If the rule is adopted, the ensuing crackdown could be sweeping.
    — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025

crack down

2 of 2 verb
  • One backhand cracked down the line.
    — James Hansen, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Trump has already tried to crack down on this issue.
    — Juliana Kim, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026
  • France and other countries have vowed to crack down.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
  • And then these companies crack down and ban them from the apps.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
  • It is cracked down the middle; it’s broken.
    — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
  • Across the country, schools are cracking down on cell phone use.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Efforts to crack down on streaming fraud have ramped up around the world.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
  • The charges are part of a nationwide push to crack down on health care fraud.
    — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 23 June 2026
  • Now, an effort to crack down on the problem is gaining steam.
    — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Twitch has tried to crack down on such behavior in recent years.
    — Angela Yang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Third, crack down on fare evasion and use the money to help pay for free buses.
    — Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Many of them urged the shah to toughen up and crack down harder on protesters.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
  • The call comes as Spain moves to crack down on social media more broadly.
    — Connor Greene, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
  • The Iranian regime cracks down.
    — ABC News, 18 Jan. 2026
  • Swift and Kelce have done their best to crack down on the spread of information.
    — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 June 2026
  • Now some Chicago suburbs are cracking down on where and how they can be used.
    — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 1 May 2026
  • Its government cracked down on rock ’n’ roll, which took a decade to recover.
    — John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Jan. 2026
  • That was just before police in Charlotte cracked down on street takeovers around the city.
    — Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Others joined in, prompting the regime to crack down, with some deaths reported.
    — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
  • Google is cracking down on sideloading.
    — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
  • Third, governments should crack down on the commercial wildlife trade.
    — Neil Vora, Time, 22 May 2026
  • Trump has said the deployments are an effective way of cracking down on crime.
    — Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • To keep the public safe, police are cracking down on drivers who fail to stop at crosswalks.
    — Alysia Burgio, CBS News, 25 June 2026
  • That’s why the brand has been cracking down on people sharing their Costco cards.
    — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Those moves came out of the president's efforts to crack down on antisemitism.
    — Dan Gooding shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
  • But in 2023, Vail began cracking down on them as well.
    — Justin Wingerter, Denver Post, 10 Sep. 2025
  • In that darkness, the security forces cracked down.
    — Sarah Dean, CNN Money, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The online retail giant is cracking down on the practice.
    — Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Yet some of the charges are more troubling and suggest a real attempt to crack down on legal dissent.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 25 June 2026
  • When Cubans have protested their conditions, police have cracked down.
    — Madeline Leung Coleman, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025

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