How to Use crackdown in a Sentence

crackdown

1 of 2 noun

• Companies that pollute are the target of a new crackdown.
• What to know about the crackdown.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025
• The crackdown is part of a broader scheme.
  — Lizz Winstead, Time, 27 Sep. 2025
• Wednesday’s is at least the fifth death linked to the crackdowns.
  — Tim Sullivan, Fortune, 8 Jan. 2026
• The arrest comes amid a crackdown on gambling dens in the city.
  — Jason Green, Mercury News, 1 May 2026
• Why did Gilbert police wait three years for a crackdown?
  — Robert Anglen, AZCentral.com, 24 Sep. 2025
• The crackdown may only be starting in earnest.
  — Juanita Goebertus, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
• That led to a crackdown in the city and a new system to regulate them.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Oct. 2025
• Hong Kong might be about to engage in a claw machine crackdown.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2024
• At least one social dancing event was canceled in the wake of the crackdown.
  — Kinsey Crowley, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
• Only days ago, the worst of China's tech crackdown seemed to be over.
  — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 6 May 2022
• But many now fear that the arrests portend a broader crackdown.
  — Valerie Hopkins, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
• SpaceX didn’t provide details about its role in the crackdown.
  — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 3 June 2026
• Of course, Filmsaaz has followed the crackdown on protests back home.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Feb. 2026
• The death was at least the fifth linked to immigration crackdowns.
  — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Jan. 2026
• Recent years have seen a legal crackdown on the issue.
  — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 9 Apr. 2026
• At least one storeowner voiced his support for the crackdown.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
• But Stern, of course, knows a thing or two about FCC crackdowns.
  — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 22 Sep. 2025
• The crackdown of governments on their own people?
  — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 5 Mar. 2026
• Uber is making some exceptions amid the crackdown.
  — Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 27 June 2026
• With any luck, the crackdown will reduce the number of spam calls in the US.
  — PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2025
• In the face of a deadly regime crackdown, protests died down in Iran earlier this year.
  — Adam Pourahmadi, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
• The mass arrest marks the largest sweep yet in the crackdown at US worksites.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2025
• Letlow framed the effort as both a crackdown and a fact-finding mission.
  — Kaelan Deese, The Washington Examiner, 24 Apr. 2026
• The bloody crackdown had a lasting impact on Walz, who saw it as all the more reason to go.
  — Jennifer Jett, NBC News, 7 Aug. 2024
• This is not a crackdown on all E-bikes, so here is a breakdown of the differences.
  — Brian Sherrod, CBS News, 8 May 2026
• But the result will be an unstable mix of crackdowns, loopholes, and crises.
  — Jonathan Portes, Time, 29 Oct. 2025
• The killing has become a flash point in a wider crackdown across the Persian Gulf.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 17 Apr. 2026
• Thousands of demonstrators were killed in the crackdown.
  — Lauren Kent, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
• If the rule is adopted, the ensuing crackdown could be sweeping.
  — Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 30 Apr. 2025

crack down

2 of 2 verb

• One backhand cracked down the line.
  — James Hansen, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
• The new city law is aimed at cracking down on short-term rentals.
  — Nathan Diller, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2023
• Trump has already tried to crack down on this issue.
  — Juliana Kim, NPR, 29 Mar. 2026
• France and other countries have vowed to crack down.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2026
• And then these companies crack down and ban them from the apps.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 4 Feb. 2026
• It is cracked down the middle; it’s broken.
  — Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 15 May 2026
• Across the country, schools are cracking down on cell phone use.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 10 Oct. 2025
• Efforts to crack down on streaming fraud have ramped up around the world.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
• The charges are part of a nationwide push to crack down on health care fraud.
  — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 23 June 2026
• Now, an effort to crack down on the problem is gaining steam.
  — Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 3 Sep. 2025
• Ohio passed legislation that year to crack down on pill mills.
  — David Ovalle, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2023
• Twitch has tried to crack down on such behavior in recent years.
  — Angela Yang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
• Third, crack down on fare evasion and use the money to help pay for free buses.
  — Bradley Tusk, New York Daily News, 18 Jan. 2026
• Many of them urged the shah to toughen up and crack down harder on protesters.
  — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 2 June 2026
• The call comes as Spain moves to crack down on social media more broadly.
  — Connor Greene, Time, 17 Feb. 2026
• The Iranian regime cracks down.
  — ABC News, 18 Jan. 2026
• Swift and Kelce have done their best to crack down on the spread of information.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 25 June 2026
• Now some Chicago suburbs are cracking down on where and how they can be used.
  — Jermont Terry, CBS News, 1 May 2026
• Trim the travel budget, reduce head count and…crack down on remote work?
  — Callum Borchers, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
• Its government cracked down on rock ’n’ roll, which took a decade to recover.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 31 Jan. 2026
• That was just before police in Charlotte cracked down on street takeovers around the city.
  — Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
• Others joined in, prompting the regime to crack down, with some deaths reported.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 5 Jan. 2026
• Google is cracking down on sideloading.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 30 Jan. 2026
• Third, governments should crack down on the commercial wildlife trade.
  — Neil Vora, Time, 22 May 2026
• Law enforcement struggles to crack down on bomb fishing due to a lack of resources.
  — Jalynn Hilton, ABC News, 17 Sep. 2024
• Trump has said the deployments are an effective way of cracking down on crime.
  — Arpan Lobo, Freep.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Cities take action Some cities also are looking to crack down on these devices.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 14 Sep. 2024
• China has tried to crack down on human trafficking in recent years.
  — Joy Dong, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2023
• Pierce-Sherrod tried for years to crack down on the owners of these locations.
  — Sam Charles, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
• The bill also includes measures aimed at cracking down on bad actors.
  — Marc Hogan, Pitchfork, 11 Dec. 2023