How to Use curtailment in a Sentence

curtailment

noun
  • So long as this is the fact, crop curtailment is repugnant in principle.
    — Ian Shapira, Washington Post, 13 Feb. 2018
  • The curtailment of Western support for Ukraine would not end the war.
    — Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 12 Sep. 2023
  • What does your bank do to get comfortable with basis and curtailment forecasts?
    — Jason Kaminsky, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Long-term curtailment of oil and gas drilling on federal lands would devastate the state’s budget.
    — Paul J. Gessing, National Review, 12 Feb. 2021
  • The predictable results would be, in the short run, the curtailment of existing founders’ control.
    — Karl W. Smith, Twin Cities, 3 Nov. 2019
  • That curtailment of liberty wasn’t the only result of the revolt, though.
    — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2020
  • But in recent weeks the rate has climbed by more than can be explained simply by the curtailment of the Tulane testing.
    — Jeff Adelson, NOLA.com, 7 Dec. 2020
  • Europe and Austria are paying a stiff price for the curtailment of Russian gas.
    — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • That’s why Trump should focus on getting those changes, as well as an end of the visa lottery and a curtailment of chain migration.
    — Rich Lowry, National Review, 26 Jan. 2018
  • The spread also justified an extreme curtailment of campus life.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2020
  • The blackouts are what’s known as Step 50 in the emergency load curtailment plan – the next to highest step.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Anyone who took advantage of that offer now stands to see a drastic curtailment in the level of support for their system.
    — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 17 July 2017
  • This curtailment will lead to bankruptcies, job losses and recessions, the thinking goes.
    — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2020
  • Lawmakers are trying again this year to enshrine the curtailment of solitary confinement in law.
    — Kelan Lyons, courant.com, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Levy’s book is devoted to explaining why the curtailment of personal judgment has had such poor results.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2023
  • These students should probably think twice about calling for the curtailment of certain people’s rights to speak and assemble freely.
    — Katherine Timpf, National Review, 20 Oct. 2017
  • An emergency curtailment regulation remains in place as a backstop for those rights holders who did not join in the program.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 10 July 2022
  • The order went well beyond the usual curtailment of staffers for security and safety reasons.
    — Robert Burns, ajc, 30 Apr. 2021
  • One source of savings is avoided 'curtailment' of wind farms on Maui, which already produce more power at times than the local grid can handle.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Feb. 2015
  • Sales rose under Obama as some gun owners feared curtailment of their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
    — Katy Moeller and David Staats, idahostatesman, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The other owners agreed to the curtailment plan, according to APS.
    — Ryan Randazzo, The Arizona Republic, 12 Mar. 2021
  • The next day, Moore's staff announced cost-cutting measures, including the curtailment of jury trials for five months.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Another Ormond Beach unit had the sixth-highest level of curtailments.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
  • Some of China's curtailment is a symptom of inflexible power grids.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 May 2016
  • The heavy curtailment of international flights as a result of the pandemic has also meant that many of those willing to fly home to cast their ballot cannot do so.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The wet winter in the state has led to a surge in hydroelectricity, leading to curtailments of utility-scale solar.
    — Rob Nikolewski, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 May 2017
  • This process, called curtailment, remained a small factor, with only 2% of the potential generation lost this way.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 17 Aug. 2019
  • The state sent curtailment notices to a larger group of about 4,500 water rights holders in August.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2022
  • That was mostly due to Libya and Nigeria, the two suppliers exempt from the production-curtailment pact.
    — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Now is not the time to bring about more closures and curtailments in our basic industry and allow a flood of imports to crush the domestic industry and its workers.
    — Ana Swanson, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2020

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