How to Use enforcer in a Sentence

enforcer

noun
  • The enforcer rode with me in the back.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • The Knicks have their enforcer.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
  • The would-be moral enforcers aren’t much better.
    — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
  • Faber, for his part, was happy to play enforcer even for just a minute or so.
    — Jess Myers, Twin Cities, 7 Mar. 2026
  • When the enforcer took a step toward me, the others fell back.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • Will be a box safety and enforcer for the defense.
    — Pete Sampson, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • The enforcers see me and now come at me with what looks like hostile intent.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Feb. 2026
  • The question now is whether antitrust enforcers will go along with the deal.
    — Scott Moritz and Nabila Ahmed, chicagotribune.com, 30 Apr. 2018
  • The courts and enforcers adopted that standard over many decades.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Cote was an enforcer—a tough guy whose job was to keep the other team's players in check.
    — Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The right hand reached down and grabbed the handle of his ‘enforcer’ and started up with it.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Jax spent most of the year as a lethal enforcer without much of a look-in on the big matches.
    — The Editors Of Gq, GQ, 6 Apr. 2018
  • People think enforcers skate out there for two minutes a night, take a few pops and call it a night.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2017
  • Sacha Boisvert has a chance to be the Hawks’ future enforcer.
    — Kalen Lumpkins, Chicago Tribune, 23 May 2026
  • Putin spent the first part of his career as a low-level enforcer of that system.
    — Bret Stephens, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In the end, consumers will win if courts and enforcers act based on evidence.
    — Satya Marar, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Both districts have sought to transform the role to be more of a mentor than an enforcer.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2020
  • All agencies that were consumer or civil rights enforcers are busy with their own scams.
    — Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
  • Nearby, deputies bribed a prisoner to serve as their enforcer.
    — USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
  • Why aren’t the enforcers themselves serving on the front lines is the question asked on the streets.
    — Melik Kaylan, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026
  • Because every team needs an enforcer.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 2 May 2026
  • Bush thought back to his first term, when his son had volunteered to play the enforcer role for his father.
    — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
  • The Tates were delighted by their enforcers.
    — Heidi Blake, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Every team needs a big, brash American at the back as an enforcer.
    — Tom Philip, GQ, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Lloyd said Goodson is the enforcer and is always ready to hit somebody.
    — Jimmy Lay, al, 9 Aug. 2022
  • So what are the consequences when the rule enforcers turn into the rule breakers?
    — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2019
  • Of course, the consequence of that is the police do their bidding and are kind of their enforcers.
    — Los Angeles Times En Español, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The New York enforcer just finished a 25-year stint in prison.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The enforcer handcuffed me and shoved me into the same car, again forcing my head between my knees.
    — Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
  • Where Tau can’t go, its squad of nano-drones or its killing-machine enforcer, Aries, can.
    — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 9 July 2018

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