Sample Sentences for

ordinance

(editor-reviewed)

While at the time, some of the finer buildings had been lifted and set back, most had been razed and replaced with towers, in accordance with a new ordinance that buildings on first-rate streets stand at least ten stories tall.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

"Apparently the city ordinances don't mean anything to them," he says, "because their lights will be on all night."  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

That there were some jokers, however, is indicated by the practice of appointing a two-man patrol whose duty was to "walk forth in the time of God's worship to take notice of such as either lye about the meeting house, without attending to the word and ordinances, or that lye at home or in the fields without giving good account thereof, and to take the names of such persons, and to present them to the magistrates, whereby they may be accordingly proceeded against."  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

It's local ordinance 17.  (source) Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth, 1961

They rejected urban renewal three times because they thought it was a communist plot, and they defeated any number of proposals for historic-zoning ordinances.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

A small town wants everyone to vote on a local ordinance.  (source) Dave Eggers, The Circle, 2013

"There is no law, nor reverence for authority, no regard for human ordinances or opinions, right or wrong, mixed up with that child's composition," remarked he, as much to himself as to his companion.  (source) Nathanial Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, 1850

It deployed smoke inspectors to enforce a new antismoke ordinance.  (source) Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City, 2003

Now that the comfort stations were run under military ordinances and the women not professionals but rather those who had unwittingly enlisted or been conscripted into the wartime women's volunteer corps, to contribute and sacrifice as all did, the expectation was that the various diseases would be kept more or less in check.  (source) Chang-rae Lee, A Gesture Life, 1999

A recent city ordinance prohibited any sort of burning, and she worried that the neighbors might call the police.  (source) Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, 2005

And I seriously doubt that the locals have any traffic control ordinances.†  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

Now, there is nothing wrong in having an ordinance which requires a permit for a parade.†  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail, 1963

They're bound to have ordinances dealing with this kind of thing.†  (source) Anne Tayler, A Spool of Blue Thread, 2015