How to Use embargo in a Sentence

embargo

1 of 2 noun

• The oil embargo has driven it to the brink.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 31 May 2026
• Now that all the embargoes have lifted, here’s a guide to all of them.
  — Fortune, 6 July 2018
• For now, though, Solène is at the beach, still in the dark about the embargo.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 2 Sep. 2025
• There's sticks, there's stones, and then there's breaking an embargo.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 30 May 2018
• There have been a lot of calls for arms embargoes and a halt to aid for Israel.
  — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Sep. 2025
• That’s why some experts don’t believe a full embargo will work.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 24 Aug. 2018
• To end a genocide, impose and arms embargo.
  — Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Sep. 2025
• For one, that embargo is acknowledged to have backfired in the long run.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2018
• Many of these sanctions have since been lifted, but the arms embargo remains in place.
  — Annabelle Timsit, Quartz, 22 Mar. 2021
• Then the embargo lifted and some of the reviews were pretty nasty.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 June 2023
• Now, the West’s embargo will make catching up that much harder.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2023
• In order for that to happen, Congress would need to vote to lift the embargo.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2017
• So, less than two months after the rescue, the committee broke its own press embargo.
  — Max Marshall, SI.com, 26 June 2019
• The United States has a decades-old trade embargo on the island.
  — Author: Sarah Marsh, Nelson Acosta, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2018
• Many congressional Democrats want to lift the embargo even if a deal can’t be reached.
  — Francesca Chambers, USA Today, 25 Apr. 2026
• Waltz said, using Cuba’s word for the embargo.
  — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2025
• But their embargo didn’t inflict enough damage to bring Doha to heel.
  — Matthew Martin, Bloomberg.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• Libya lifts its 14-month-old oil embargo against the United States.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
• Russia’s coal is under embargo, and pressure is building to extend the ban to oil and gas.
  — WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• But what if the embargo gets lifted tomorrow?
  — Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 20 May 2026
• There is no complete embargo on the energy supplies, and the borders are not shut.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• Put a price cap on Russian oil while the EU hammers out an embargo.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• But in order for that embargo to be lifted, Congress would have to take action.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 24 Mar. 2026
• The cost of oil worldwide continues to be over $100 due to the embargo.
  — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 25 May 2022
• The embargo on Cuban goods is not going to lift anytime soon, however.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2017
• The salary was very bad due to the international embargo on Iraq.
  — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2017
• The one thing that could do real harm to Russia would be an embargo on its energy exports.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2022
• Prince is not the only one to have been accused of violating the decade-old arms embargo on Libya.
  — Declan Walsh, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2021
• American cars didn’t get small again until the first oil embargo hit in 1973.
  — Eric D. Lawrence, Detroit Free Press, 22 June 2019
• With the Arab oil embargo of 1973, the world price of crude almost quadrupled.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 26 Aug. 2025

embargo

2 of 2 verb

• No cartel can embargo the wind.
  — Jennifer Granholm, semafor.com, 30 Apr. 2026
• Film studios agree and will embargo early reviews to keep plots secret.
  — Bonnie Kristian, The Week, 6 Oct. 2021
• Wind and solar cannot be embargoed, blockaded, or shut off by a foreign power.
  — David Frykman, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2026
• Items were embargoed and discarded.
  — Laura Daniella Sepulveda, AZCentral.com, 20 Feb. 2026
• Amazon has embargoed significant parts of the show, starting with the premise itself.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 Mar. 2023
• The document states the city was asked to keep the information embargoed through Tuesday.
  — Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 27 May 2026
• Sanctions mean that the product is embargoed in one of the industry’s biggest markets, which accounts for about one-third of global rum sales.
  — Kevin Rozario, Forbes.com, 18 July 2025
• That kind of information is often embargoed.
  — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 2 Feb. 2026
• His remarks were embargoed until Wednesday.
  — ABC News, 22 Apr. 2026
• Breslow had done the interview before the game with the understanding that the selections would be embargoed until later in the day.
  — Steve Buckley, New York Times, 7 July 2025
• Certainly, China will want to add a long list of high-tech items, currently embargoed, to the US export list.
  — Andy Browne, semafor.com, 7 Apr. 2026
• And unlike with fossil fuels, renewable energy costs aren’t volatile, and their fuel source — sunbeams and wind currents — cannot be embargoed.
  — Kathleen Biggins, Sun Sentinel, 26 May 2026
• Zelensky said more nations should embargo Russian oil and block its banks, and foreign companies should pull out of Russia.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 24 May 2022
• The ruling allows authorities to embargo any properties or money owned by the church, including bonds, cars and artwork.
  — Fox News, 27 Mar. 2018
• This week, European Union leaders agreed to embargo most Russian oil imports to members of the trading bloc by year-end.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 1 June 2022
• Norway is also feeding greater quantities of oil to its neighbors, replacing embargoed Russian oil.
  — Stanley Reed, New York Times, 6 Apr. 2023
• Obviously, to conduct a war, the commander in chief needs to be able to embargo trade that supplies material support to the enemy.
  — Ben Bayer, Oc Register, 3 Nov. 2025
• Reporters regularly agree to embargo logistical details of trips to war zones, but are not typically asked to sign a document binding them to do so.
  — Maggie Haberman, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
• In the past, the Kennedy Center and CBS have announced the honorees via press release, embargoed to some outlets.
  — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 13 Aug. 2025
• The report, and Kasich's remarks, were embargoed until the report's release Tuesday morning.
  — Monroe Trombly, Cincinnati.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• With resurgent post-Covid demand and US plans to embargo Russian crude imports, global prices will likely continue to climb.
  — Ariel Cohen, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Macmillan believes that e-book lending depresses sales and is experimenting with embargoing some titles from being distributed through libraries for four months.
  — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 12 Aug. 2019
• Europe will continue to embargo Russian goods and build its energy future without Russia’s Gazprom.
  — Jeremy Shapiro, The Atlantic, 10 Sep. 2025
• The minerals the Chinese just embargoed have applications in the defense and technology sectors.
  — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
• After Monroe’s death, Arnold embargoed the vast majority of her photographs of the star, in the hopes of protecting her image from media exploitation.
  — Sheena McKenzie, CNN Money, 3 June 2026
• Sullivan, who has secrets that are instantly obvious but still embargoed, is particularly harsh toward Cameron.
  — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
• Officials embargoed all oysters remaining at The Fruit Stand & Seafood and encourage everyone who bought oysters from the shop to throw them away.
  — Mirna Alsharif, NBC News, 12 June 2023
• Products containing kratom or 7-OH are currently embargoed by the state because they’re unregulated.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 25 June 2026
• Zelensky made his first public acknowledgment of the operations Wednesday in remarks to reporters that were embargoed until Friday.
  — Volodymyr Yurchuk, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2026
• Zelenskyy made his first public acknowledgment of the operations Wednesday in remarks to reporters that were embargoed until Friday.
  — Brian Dakss, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026