Sample Sentences for
interdict
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    What Jem did was something I'd do as a matter of course had I not been under Atticus's interdict, which I assumed included not fighting horrible old ladies.  (source)
    interdict = orders not to do some things
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    In vain she wept and writhed against the interdict, and implored her father to have pity on Linton: all she got to comfort her was a promise that he would write and give him leave to come to the Grange when he pleased; but explaining that he must no longer expect to see Catherine at Wuthering Heights.  (source)
    interdict = prohibition
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    A freebie from the road gods, a car like this will make a great undercover vehicle for drug interdiction.  (source)
    interdiction = interception by legal authority
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    In March, the U.S. Air Force began Operation Rolling Thunder—"to interdict the flow of supplies to the south."†  (source)
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    The interdiction field added its sonic undertones to the sudden silence.†  (source)
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    Bear in mind, too, that under these untoward circumstances he has to cut many feet deep in the flesh; and in that subterraneous manner, without so much as getting one single peep into the ever-contracting gash thus made, he must skilfully steer clear of all adjacent, interdicted parts, and exactly divide the spine at a critical point hard by its insertion into the skull.†  (source)
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    Upon this score he was so jealous of austerity and reserve, that when the Dame de Beaujeu, the king's daughter, came to visit the cloister of Notre-Dame, in the month of December, 1481, he gravely opposed her entrance, reminding the bishop of the statute of the Black Book, dating from the vigil of Saint-Barthélemy, 1334, which interdicts access to the cloister to "any woman whatever, old or young, mistress or maid."†  (source)
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    A young, powerful man in uniform, driving a Jeep, stepping out, and-through the mists of Jason's inner screen-yelling at what was left of an assault team that had returned from interdicting an ordnance route paralleling the Ho Chi Minh Trail.†  (source)
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    Try to do it and the nearest you can come is a projection of them while the two actual people were doubtless separate and elsewhere—two shades pacing, serene and untroubled by flesh, in a summer garden—the same two serene phantoms who seem to watch, hover, impartial attentive and quiet, above and behind the inexplicable thunderhead of interdictions and defiances and repudiations out of which the rocklike Sutpen and the volatile and violent Henry flashed and glared and ceased;†  (source)
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    The NATO mission would be to maintain the Atlantic Bridge and continue transoceanic trade, and the obvious Soviet mission would be to interdict this trade.†  (source)
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    What we were supposed to be doing was what they called an interdiction number.†  (source)
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    Ali then entered bringing coffee and chibouques; as to M. Baptistin, this portion of the building was interdicted to him.†  (source)
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    Fourthly: it is inexplicable why the special regulation of the prison of the Madelonettes interdicts the prisoner from having a chair, even by paying for it.†  (source)
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