How to Use embargo in a Sentence

embargo

noun

• And there is no embargo at all from the rest of the world.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 2 Aug. 2021
• Now that all the embargoes have lifted, here’s a guide to all of them.
  — Fortune, 6 July 2018
• Then the embargo lifted and some of the reviews were pretty nasty.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 16 June 2023
• Restrictions, the embargo will not bring down the regime.
  — Washington Post, 16 June 2017
• 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
• In order for that to happen, Congress would need to vote to lift the embargo.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Esquire, 12 Jan. 2017
• The United States has a decades-old trade embargo on the island.
  — Author: Sarah Marsh, Nelson Acosta, Anchorage Daily News, 19 May 2018
• Is there some weird first-round embargo on Kris Bryant?
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 14 Feb. 2018
• That’s why some experts don’t believe a full embargo will work.
  — Alex Ward, Vox, 24 Aug. 2018
• There is no complete embargo on the energy supplies, and the borders are not shut.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• The salary was very bad due to the international embargo on Iraq.
  — Pat McDonogh, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2017
• The northern segment of the pipeline serves Poland and Germany — who have agreed to the embargo.
  — Diksha Madhok, CNN, 31 May 2022
• Now, the West’s embargo will make catching up that much harder.
  — Laurent Belsie, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Jan. 2023
• There's sticks, there's stones, and then there's breaking an embargo.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 30 May 2018
• Russia’s coal is under embargo, and pressure is building to extend the ban to oil and gas.
  — WSJ, 22 Apr. 2022
• Or lift the trade embargo and end all U.S. sanctions to see what happens.
  — Star Tribune, 18 July 2021
• So, less than two months after the rescue, the committee broke its own press embargo.
  — Max Marshall, SI.com, 26 June 2019
• The one at risk of being crippled by an embargo is now ZTE.
  — The Economist, 19 Apr. 2018
• 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
• Put a price cap on Russian oil while the EU hammers out an embargo.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 May 2022
• But their embargo didn’t inflict enough damage to bring Doha to heel.
  — Matthew Martin, Bloomberg.com, 2 Dec. 2020
• The embargo on Cuban goods is not going to lift anytime soon, however.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Esquire, 12 Jan. 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
• The nation had been traumatized by an oil embargo a few years earlier.
  — Charles Riley, CNN, 16 Sep. 2019
• According to the report, a full transfer embargo is now said to be expected to follow suit.
  — SI.com, 11 July 2018
• So, countries close the borders and put an embargo on energy resources.
  — Isabelle Khurshudyan, Washington Post, 16 Aug. 2022
• Six years later the embargo, which covers all commercial trade, still stands.
  — Dina Fine Maron, National Geographic, 16 Aug. 2019
• The embargo remains in place and unchanged by Trump's policy.
  — Fox News, 16 June 2017
• The movie is still under strict embargo, but glowing reactions have started to trickle out.
  — Nate Jones, Vulture, 1 Jan. 2021

Last Updated: 1 May 2024