How to Use enjoin in a Sentence

enjoin

verb

• The judge enjoined them from selling the property.
• He was enjoined by his conscience from telling a lie.
• That's the only part of the law that X did not fight to enjoin on appeal.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 5 Sep. 2024
• We are enjoined to seek and create the change that our world so desperately needs.
  — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017
• The result will be a legal race to see which of those courts enjoins the policy first.
  — John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 22 Apr. 2026
• That pact enjoined adults and governments to act in the best interests of each child.
  — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 30 June 2025
• His lawyers also were enjoined not to suggest a reason for the shooting.
  — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 9 Nov. 2019
• As of this writing, key portions have been enjoined by a federal court.
  — Jamie Dolkas, Harvard Business Review, 27 Feb. 2025
• Mal Bellairs had a rich, deep voice, and clearly enjoined the encounter.
  — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
• And that relief would be to sue to enjoin the parties from closing the transaction.
  — Imani Cruzen, Twin Cities, 28 Mar. 2026
• In the Catholic moral system there is a list of works of mercy enjoined on believers.
  — John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• And can they be legally enjoined from ever being involved in city planning again?
  — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2025
• Four courts have now enjoined the order, and have taken the unusual step of ruling from the bench in each case.
  — Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 22 Feb. 2025
• Nor do courts engage in prior restraint, enjoining speech before it has been made.
  — John W. Dean, CNN, 6 June 2017
• That's now been enjoined, blocked by three different federal courts.
  — CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
• The funding proposal failed to enjoin the full support of the council.
  — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2017
• Our faith, in its wisdom, enjoins us to be the enemy of the oppressor and an aid to the oppressed.
  — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
• The two appeals courts had enjoined the entire ban, meaning that aliens had to be admitted as before.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
• Because these two aspects of monogamy are so often enjoined among humans, they are considered two sides of the same coin.
  — Nathan H. Lents, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
• The court enjoined the Neuschwanders from renting their property on a short-term basis.
  — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
• Furthermore, Christian husbands were enjoined to love their wives and be faithful to them.
  — Charlotte Allen, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
• That’s the finding of a federal judge who has enjoined a law to silence groups that run pregnancy help centers.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2023
• That is not the same as the balance of trade, which is why courts would ideally enjoin the president’s proclamation.
  — Editorial Board, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2026
• While the suits are being filed separately, lawyers intend to enjoin them at a later stage, Scharg said.
  — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2022
• Owens rejected that assertion and enjoined the new law, which was to take effect Sunday.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
• The county gets the court to enjoin this new tax and continues to collect the first occupational tax.
  — Heather Gann | [email protected], al, 7 Oct. 2022
• The court enjoined Sue from controlling certain assets.
  — Virginia Hammerle, Dallas Morning News, 1 Mar. 2026
• When the music is enjoined to shift the production into high gear, the ensuing reverie doesn’t always feel earned.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
• For now, the Charlottesville council's decision has been enjoined by a court order.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 20 July 2017
• Columbia, for example, didn’t own theaters at the time, so it wasn’t enjoined from acquiring them in the future.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024