How to Use criminalize in a Sentence

criminalize

verb

• The march had been planned in response to a law that will criminalize some drag performances.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
• Instead Hong Kong has criminalized Mr. Lai’s calls to uphold freedom and the rule of law.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
• His first order of business was to introduce a state bill to criminalize the type of scam that led to his son’s death.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 13 May 2023
• That all recently came to a screeching halt when the city criminalized the substance.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
• Dissent has been criminalized as extremist and can lead to sentences of life in prison.
  — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
• The state is currently engaged in a year-long battle over the precedent of an 1849 law that criminalizes the death of an unborn child at the hands of anyone but the mother.
  — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
• The analysis of state laws finds most of the rules that criminalize address sharing do so by considering the practice a form of theft.
  — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
• Last month during a Pheu Thai rally, youth activists asked if Pheu Thai would amend the law that criminalizes criticism of the monarchy.
  — Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
• And five years after the first deepfakes started to appear, the first laws are just emerging that criminalize the sharing of faked images.
  — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
• Last month, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a first-of-its kind measure that would criminalize some drag performances in the state.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2023
• Pita’s party had vowed to weaken a law that criminalizes criticism of the monarchy and shrink the military.
  — Muktita Suhartono, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
• At the top of this year, dozens of bills trying to restrict or criminalize transgender health access were introduced across 11 states.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• In recent months, hundreds of Just Stop Oil activists have been detained under a new rule that criminalizes slow walking protests.
  — Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Dec. 2023
• Sarah Jones wrote about this new effort to criminalize dissent for New York Magazine.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
• They are expected to show their commitment to the war effort; any expression of dissent with respect to the war has been criminalized.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
• The platform says the party supports criminalizing all abortions within the state.
  — Brittany Shammas and Marisa Iati, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2023
• But in all three places, the community exists in a legal gray area — neither criminalized nor protected by the law.
  — Mohamad El Chamaa, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Still, many Mexican leaders in the city and those who live the tradition say that the caravans should be embraced and controlled rather than policed and criminalized.
  — Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
• Aid groups said that step could have the effect of criminalizing ordinary trade and assistance to Yemenis.
  — TIME, 17 Jan. 2024
• But health experts warn this line of thinking could be used to criminalize doctors who provide lifesaving care.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 8 Sep. 2023
• Column: Red states are threatening to criminalize out-of-state abortions.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2023
• Indiana Senate Democrats launched a last-ditch effort Monday to add language around picketers' rights to a bill that would criminalize protests outside homes.
  — Johnny Magdaleno, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Feb. 2023
• When kids offend, how does a system designed to criminalize strike the right balance between consequences and second chances?
  — Sean Cotter, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2023
• But apart from all of that, one thing that Germany has achieved with its legalization of cannabis for personal use is breaking a taboo that has criminalized cannabis consumption in the country for too long.
  — Dario Sabaghi, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• But to try to criminalize that, that's a different issue entirely.
  — Rachel Scott, ABC News, 18 July 2023
• And last year, Alabama became the second state to ban gender-affirming care for minors and the first to criminalize doctors who provide it, threatening them with up to 10 years in prison.
  — Alex Kotch, The New Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
• According to the report, Alabama is among 35 states that has laws on the books that criminalize exposing another person to HIV.
  — al, 19 June 2023
• And the reality is, our freedom of expression is stronger than their power to criminalize people.
  — Roman Feeser, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Businesses and journalists fear that broad provisions on state secrets could criminalize their day to day work.
  — Kanis Leung, Quartz, 28 Feb. 2024
• The editors write that Smith himself is attempting to criminalize protected free expression and subvert the rule of law.
  — Noah Rothman, National Review, 2 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024