How to Use curfew in a Sentence

curfew

noun
  • No one is allowed on the streets during the curfew.
  • The town was placed under curfew.
  • The teens were stopped by police for violating the curfew.
  • The city ordered a curfew soon after the rioting started.
  • He has a 10 o'clock curfew.
  • The sun would set soon and the curfew would take effect.
    — James Verini, The Atlantic, 12 May 2026
  • And my father would have this strict curfew.
    — NBC news, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The city was put under a curfew.
    — Zach Dean Outkick, FOXNews.com, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Greenville says its new curfew will be in place at least through the end of the month.
    — Mark Price, Charlotte Observer, 25 June 2026
  • Schools, banks and shops have been closed and a nighttime curfew has been put in place.
    — David Winning, WSJ, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Day recalled one night when his dad chewed him out for missing curfew.
    — Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The curfew didn’t change anything.
    — Louis Martinez, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Despite the curfew, young people went to the city’s dance clubs.
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 8 Sep. 2022
  • The curfew will be in effect every night, year-round.
    — David Ferrara, The Enquirer, 15 Aug. 2025
  • The curfew is expected to last two weeks.
    — ABC News, 16 Mar. 2026
  • But the 30-day curfew, Hardy said, was at least a place to start.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2022
  • The city went as far as to impose a curfew last weekend, for the third year in a row.
    — Claire Pedersen, ABC News, 19 Mar. 2024
  • Instead of curfews, just treat people like grown-ups.
    — Nasser Hussain, New York Times, 23 June 2026
  • The sky west of the city, which was under an overnight curfew, was lit up by an orange glow.
    — Oleksandr Stashevskyi and Ciaran McQuillan, Anchorage Daily News, 17 May 2022
  • The city declared a state of emergency and put a curfew in place.
    — Umar Farooq, ProPublica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • The storm was so severe in some areas that a curfew was installed.
    — Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • But who cares about curfew issues, anyway?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Many are now calling on the city of Detroit to change the curfew.
    — Gino Vicci, CBS News, 20 May 2026
  • The fight happened within a time frame allowed by the curfew law.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 15 Aug. 2022
  • My husband wasn’t with me the night before, because of the curfew in the city.
    — Glamour, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The curfew was gradually eased over a few days.
    — Chris Foran, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • The app doesn’t have a curfew, so a teen could take a trip in the middle of the night without parental consent.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Ask the parent of any teenager who breaks curfew or the partner of a cheating spouse.
    — J.t. Barbarese, New York Daily News, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Last year, the city declared a midnight curfew for South Beach.
    — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Last year, two shootings on Ocean Drive led the city to set a midnight curfew.
    — Patricia Mazzei, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2023

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