How to Use edict in a Sentence

edict

noun

• The government issued an edict banning public demonstrations.
• So, the politicians have found a legal way around the voters’ edict.
  — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
• There is anger among Afghan women as a face veil edict splits the Taliban.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
• One of them defies his edict to stay out of Annabelle's bedroom.
  — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2023
• An all-hands-on-deck edict has been issued to get the project up to speed — for now, the R1T is taking a back seat.
  — Edward Ludlow, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
• One edict said the most devout women wouldn’t leave the house at all, unless there’s need.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• One edict said the most devout women would not leave the house at all, unless there’s need.
  — Nabih Bulos, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
• The shelter-in-place edict caused a drop in sales, which Arredondo said were on the rise before the coronavirus.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Jan. 2022
• Galvan says the switch came in form of a conversation, rather than an edict from Belles.
  — Theo MacKie, The Arizona Republic, 9 Sep. 2022
• The edict comes just a month after the government lifted a curfew in place since March 2020.
  — Reuters, CNN, 23 Nov. 2021
• As with so many American fashion edicts, though, its origins can be traced back to the elite of the Gilded Age.
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2023
• Unsurprisingly, the edict has outraged many folks in the 5.71-square-mile burgh.
  — Samuel Braslow, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Feb. 2024
• An edict not to discuss a case that has consumed Trump’s thinking for weeks poses even more of a challenge.
  — Nicholas Nehamas, BostonGlobe.com, 14 June 2023
• An edict not to discuss a case that has consumed Mr. Trump’s thinking for weeks poses even more of a challenge.
  — Eileen Sullivan, New York Times, 13 June 2023
• Across the county, government workers worried about running afoul of the new board’s edicts.
  — Patrick Marley, Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2023
• The Fargo board voted 7-2 last week to nix a previous board edict from April to recite the pledge before each meeting.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Aug. 2022
• Roach Brown says his brother was so respected, and so feared, that no one dared violate his edict.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• Whatever the reason for this old-fashioned fashion edict, the good news is that nowadays no one should feel need to follow it.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 25 Aug. 2022
• The timing of the edict comes as Afghanistan plunges deeper into an economic crisis and amid warnings of a looming famine.
  — Eliza MacKintosh, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
• Because this process is not about laying down edicts or pushing buttons.
  — Lloyd Adams, Quartz, 14 June 2023
• But this year, a Mexico City politician issued an edict.
  — Alejandra Ibarra Chaoul, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• However, this edict didn’t stop his art department from tucking away a few notable items, much to the surprise of Gilroy.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2022
• The horror was that, thanks to Khomeini’s cruel edict, so many people did suffer.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2023
• Casandra Kennedy, a 28-year-old public health adviser, quit because of the city’s full return-to-office edict, and her pay was too low.
  — New York Times, 13 July 2022
• Rick Smith was a defensive assistant at the time and still can recall the reaction when the edict was presented.
  — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
• According to the edict, only a woman’s eyes should be visible.
  — Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News, 24 Dec. 2022
• Her act defies King Creon’s recent edict that Polynices be left to rot, unburied.
  — Rachel Hadas, The Conversation, 8 July 2022
• Slugger Frank Thomas, who often spent his pregame time watching video, was visibly upset by the edict and said the idea was nice but short-sighted.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 31 Mar. 2022
• Powell’s edict was to crush the economy to weaken demand which would burst the inflation bubble.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 10 Aug. 2022
• Since the start of this school year, the district has been operating under a state edict to get at least 95 percent of its buses to run on time each month — a bar BPS has yet to meet.
  — Christopher Huffaker, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024