dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

interdict
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 6 word variations
  • In March, the U.S. Air Force began Operation Rolling Thunder—"to interdict the flow of supplies to the south."†  (source)
  • The interdiction field added its sonic undertones to the sudden silence.†  (source)
    interdiction = authoritative prohibition; or to stop or hamper
  • But the names of saints are not interdicted.†  (source)
  • Come speak to us, if no one interdicts it.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • In September, with the help of Winnie's lawyers, I brought an urgent application for an interdict against the local Brandfort security police to restrain them from harassing my daughter.†  (source)
  • This could be the beginning of a conventional war against NATO, its first step being interdiction of the sea lines of communication.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • The bands releas'd, implore the seer to say What godhead interdicts the watery way.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)