How to Use dietary law in a Sentence

dietary law

noun
  • The vow consists of not cutting the hair and other strict dietary laws to maintain a healthful state of mind and body.
    — David J. Neal, miamiherald, 28 Sep. 2017
  • The word is used to describe foods allowed under Islamic dietary laws.
    — Y.c. Orozco, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2018
  • The night will also feature wine, cheese and special delicacies from the book, with dietary laws observed.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Sep. 2019
  • Partly, that’s because Jewish dietary laws allow fish to be eaten with either meat or dairy meals.
    — Kimberly Winston and Yonat Shimron, Houston Chronicle, 1 Apr. 2018
  • Can a Jewish man refuse to serve food in a plate in which multiple meats have been placed, thus violating his dietary laws?
    — Elise Patkotak, Alaska Dispatch News, 25 July 2017
  • Halal refers to food and drink prepared in accordance with Islamic dietary laws.
    — Noelle Crombie, OregonLive.com, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Cost for event’s dinner and entertainment is $100 per person and dietary laws will be observed.
    — Sergio Carmona, sun-sentinel.com, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Some of these dietary laws are so deeply entrenched that there have even been instances of property developers not selling apartments to meat eaters.
    — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Caregivers are trained to understand the basic guidelines of keeping kosher, which means adhering to certain dietary laws.
    — Carli Teproff, Miami Herald, 10 Oct. 2025
  • From this, early rabbis extrapolated the strict dietary laws that prohibit mixing milk and meat.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 1 June 2025
  • From ritual offerings to dietary laws to prescribed fasts, food has always played an important role in religion.
    — Maria Devlin McNair, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Apr. 2018
  • Halal is food prepared or meat derived from animals slaughtered in accordance with Islamic dietary law.
    — Giles Bruce, Chicago Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Halal meat must be from certain cuts, humanely slaughtered and prepared in accordance with Islamic dietary law as laid out in the Quran.
    — Megan Woolard, Journal Sentinel, 26 Aug. 2023
  • This in fact is the position of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch in his explanation of kashrut (the dietary laws).
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 9 Apr. 2018
  • Passover is celebrated over the course of eight days with ceremony and celebration among family, but strict traditions and dietary laws must be followed.
    — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Kosher salt consists of larger, flakier crystals, named because of its ability to help extract blood and moisture out of meat during the koshering process of Jewish dietary law.
    — Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2020
  • Eleff, however, was concerned about the plane’s several dozen passengers who keep kosher (that is, according to Judaism’s dietary laws).
    — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 2 Aug. 2019
  • Critics of the policy said it had been intended to stigmatize Muslims, whose dietary laws, like those for Jews, forbid pork consumption.
    — Martin Selsoe Sorensen, New York Times, 22 May 2018
  • The celebratory meal featured a roasted pig (which the couple didn’t eat both because of their vegetarianism and Jewish dietary laws).
    — Alix Wall, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2023
  • His Chabad recently opened Pensa-Kosher — a mini-market for the handful of locals who strictly observe Jewish dietary laws.
    — Larry Luxner, Sun Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2026
  • Many scholars, for instance, suspect that the origins of religious dietary laws forbidding the consumption of pig meat lie in pigs’ susceptibility to worms that are harmful to human beings.
    — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2019
  • In 2019, Hana set up a company for certifying that meats are prepared in accordance with Islamic dietary law.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2023
  • The German Jews were the founders of American Reform Judaism, which renounced dietary laws, bar mitzvahs, and Zionism.
    — Adam Kirsch, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The bones could reveal whether inhabitants practiced Kashrut regulations, or kosher Jewish dietary laws, which govern what animals could be consumed, and how they should be prepared and handled.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 May 2025
  • Kosher certification confirms that a food product has been properly vetted and monitored for rigorous compliance with traditional Jewish dietary law.
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 27 Jan. 2023
  • This would entail following hundreds of mitzvot, or commandments, including extensive kosher dietary laws, prohibitions of work and travel on the Sabbath, and many more obscure rules, such as eschewing garments that contain both linen and wool.
    — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
  • Historians have often viewed the church’s increasingly strict enforcement of its dietary laws as a means by which Mormons set themselves apart from the American society they were increasingly immersed within.
    — Matthew Bowman, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Despite rejoicing, however, Passover is also associated with strict dietary laws due to the symbolic significance that is reflected in the passages of Exodus.
    — Coleby Phillips, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The Orthodox Union, a major Jewish organization, said in a statement that the ruling could help Jewish people in the workforce with accommodations such as times to pray and keeping kosher dietary laws.
    — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 29 June 2023
  • Emirati youth delegations visited Israel; Israeli and Emirati scholars co-presented their work at conferences all over Abu Dhabi; and festive meals were served following the Jewish and Islamic dietary laws when Passover and Ramadan overlapped.
    — Monica Marks, Time, 19 Sep. 2025

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