How to Use crackdown in a Sentence

crackdown

1 of 2 noun

• Companies that pollute are the target of a new crackdown.
• On May 16, the state announced a crackdown on the scam.
  — Erin Vivid Riley, The New Republic, 29 July 2023
• That crackdown helped bring the number of murders down to four in 1993.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• In the face of a deadly regime crackdown, protests died down in Iran earlier this year.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• But many now fear that the arrests portend a broader crackdown.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• His campaign had promised a crackdown on crime and corruption that gripped the country in recent years.
  — Rafael Romo, CNN, 13 Aug. 2023
• The crackdown came on the 34th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing, which led to a months-long siege by the Chinese government.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 4 June 2023
• The crackdown doesn't just mean a chastened Binance will have to change its practices going forward.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 6 Dec. 2023
• The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 30 Aug. 2023
• The crackdown has made people much more cautious about overtly showing their anger at the government, said Ilyash.
  — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• Some cities in the county passed their own camping restrictions, in part, out of concern that homeless people would go there to avoid the crackdown in San Diego.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Oct. 2023
• The currency was helped by a government crackdown on a black market for U.S. dollars.
  — Matthew Thomas, WSJ, 31 Oct. 2023
• So have violent crackdowns by both countries’ armies, which have been accused of killing civilians.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 28 July 2023
• The Justice Department last year seized a superyacht as part of a crackdown on Russia’s business elite.
  — Sadie Gurman, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2023
• On a parallel track with their crackdowns, San Diego and other cities have sought to expand shelters and other housing.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Their cases, along with Douma’s, came to symbolize the narrowing of civic space in Egypt, where Sisi has carried out a far-reaching crackdown on dissent over the past decade.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 19 Aug. 2023
• The first visible signs of the crackdown were the removal last year of the two rocket force commanders, followed by Gen. Li Shangfu, the defense minister.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• The country, once one of the most violent in the world, has become relatively safe under a huge crackdown on gangs and the detaining of tens of thousands of people.
  — Carmen Sesin, NBC News, 22 Feb. 2024
• The new impound rules are modeled after a similar crackdown in Orange, a city near Anaheim that had been dealing with the same kinds of scofflaw vendors for years.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2024
• More: Tech giants pledge crackdown on 2024 election AI deepfakes.
  — Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2024
• The collapse caused markets to nose-dive and led to the failure of other crypto firms; a regulatory crackdown in the US; and, in a roundabout way, the fall of two crypto-friendly banks.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• His supporters trumpet a crackdown on criminal gangs in the country that resulted in a dramatic fall in the murder rate, once the highest in the world.
  — David Shortell, CNN, 4 Feb. 2024
• The federal government sued to block the deal in March as part of a crackdown on consolidation in the airline industry.
  — Madlin Mekelburg, Fortune, 16 Jan. 2024
• The Kremlin's low-key crackdown in response to the most drastic threat to Putin in his 23-year rule highlights the Russian leader's cautious crisis management style.
  — Compiled By Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2023
• All the while, another team at Google quietly prepared to unleash the most sweeping crackdown on ad blockers since Facebook took them on in 2016.
  — WIRED, 3 Nov. 2023
• In recent weeks, protests against the current government have rocked Bangladesh as a crackdown has happened against those in opposition, ahead of the country’s next round of elections in 2024.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 16 Nov. 2023
• The crackdown comes as its rival Netflix has attributed a jump in signups from its recent crackdown on password sharing.
  — Krystal Hur, CNN, 5 Apr. 2024
• But the crackdown has also raised alarms about the rights of thousands of people like Barahona, who are arrested without explanation and held for months.
  — Mary Beth Sheridan, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2023
• New York’s crackdown on short-term rentals has dramatically reshaped the vacation rental market in the city.
  — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 9 Oct. 2023
• Coinbase’s share price has nearly tripled over the past six months, even after the Securities and Exchange Commission sued the firm as part of the agency’s broad crackdown on the industry.
  — David Yaffe-Bellany, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2023

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crack down

2 of 2 verb

• Vallas wants the police to crack down on crime in the city.
  — James Pindell, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2023
• The new city law is aimed at cracking down on short-term rentals.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• Ohio passed legislation that year to crack down on pill mills.
  — David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, TikTok is cracking down on some users who post frequently about the weight loss drugs.
  — Katie Palmer and Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 20 July 2023
• Anderson raised the spectre of the 2003 Cedar Fire to say that cracking down on encampments could reduce the risk of deadly blazes.
  — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• As concerns about TikTok’s ties to China continue to mount, governments around the globe have been cracking down on the use of the app.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 Sep. 2023
• But the more fiercely people resisted, the harsher the government cracked down on them.
  — Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 7 Mar. 2024
• Since Modi came to power in 2014 his government has cracked down on hundreds of NGOs, choking them of funds.
  — Time, 3 Aug. 2023
• Senate Bill 1 would crack down on promoting students who did not pass.
  — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2024
• Victims’ voices used to command attention when politicians were eager to crack down on crime with three strikes laws and the war on drugs.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 6 Feb. 2024
• The bill also includes measures aimed at cracking down on bad actors.
  — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023
• The vote was a surprise to many advocates, who have criticized the board for being reluctant to crack down, and some in the county, who hoped the board would put off a vote.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2024
• Despite the delay, city agencies have cracked down on vendors with and without permits.
  — Stefanos Chen, New York Times, 13 Oct. 2023
• China has tried to crack down on human trafficking in recent years.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• The findings of the report first surprised Sadow, given all of the headlines about bosses cracking down on remote work.
  — Byalicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023
• The aim is to crack down on crime, including vehicle theft, retail theft and violent crime.
  — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, 12 Mar. 2024
• In its ongoing mission to crack down on freeloaders, Costco has turned its attention to its beloved food courts.
  — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
• India cracks down on critics of coal Since then, the room for political satire has diminished.
  — Karishma Mehrotra, Washington Post, 15 July 2023
• Is Disney+ cracking down on password sharing like Netflix did?
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
• And efforts to crack down on crime targeting carriers may be paying off.
  — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 17 Apr. 2024
• Putin faced no credible opposition and cracked down on free speech.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2024
• Sands used to spend much of her time working with major fashion retailers cracking down on counterfeits sold on the streets and in back alleys.
  — Ash-Har Quraishi, Amy Corral, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2023
• The state and cities across California have been cracking down on unauthorized homeless camps.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• Hawaii isn’t the only destination looking to crack down on short-term vacation rentals.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 6 May 2024
• Vatican observers see a leader more willing to crack down on those seeking to derail his agenda for the Roman Catholic Church.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Other design changes would also help, such as cracking down on spam by imposing stronger rate limits for new users.
  — Nathaniel Lubin, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2024
• His lawyers said media coverage of the case has already sent the message that prosecutors are cracking down.
  — Chris Dolmetsch, Fortune Crypto, 23 Aug. 2023
• Courtney, why is Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb cracking down on homeless people at the airport?
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 2 Aug. 2023
• The federal government pledged to crack down on child labor earlier this year.
  — Hannah Dreier, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2023
• The social media giant also promised to crack down on advertisers that fail to comply.
  — Aaron Gregg, Washington Post, 8 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024