How to Use interdict in a Sentence

interdict

verb

• Then there are the border crossers that agents are unable to interdict.
  — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
• The inspections were meant to interdict people and drug smuggling.
  — Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2022
• His ability to interdict grain shipments led to hardship inside the walls.
  — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
• Kelly said Seals was killed trying to interdict the suspects who later killed three others.
  — Jasmine Aguilera, Time, 12 Dec. 2019
• This is why any notion of using the military to interdict smuggling at the border is a terrible idea.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Dec. 2016
• About 80% of drugs are interdicted on the high seas, according to the Coast Guard.
  — Michelle Del Rey, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2025
• In these same photos, their genitals have been blurred, interdicted by Photoshop.
  — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
• Law enforcement can interdict shipments and imprison dealers, but the success is invariably short-lived.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2010
• For decades, the Coast Guard has interdicted ships carrying drugs, boarded them, and carried out arrests.
  — Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
• No one was arrested, and the ultralight flew back to Mexico before federal agents were able to interdict it.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 4 Dec. 2020
• Others that are already out on the water, our Pacific Command is prepared to interdict.
  — CBS News, 19 Apr. 2026
• Mayorkas said fentanyl is not a new problem and urged lawmakers to support more funding to increase technology to interdict drugs.
  — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
• Warner said, nodding to the typical practice of interdicting boats suspected of ferrying drugs rather than blowing them up.
  — Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 30 Oct. 2025
• These officials said blowing up boats instead of interdicting them will have a compound effect over time on the quality of intelligence.
  — Ryan Lucas, NPR, 17 Nov. 2025
• Those people are interdicted at the border by Customs and Border Patrol.
  — Fox News, 18 July 2018
• Their job was to board the trains going from Germany to Austria at random to interdict drugs, illicit money, and criminals.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Apr. 2026
• Past administrations have relied on law enforcement to interdict drug shipments.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 17 Oct. 2025
• Past administrations have relied on law enforcement to interdict drug shipments.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2025
• Past administrations have relied on law enforcement to interdict drug shipments.
  — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2025
• But the lethal force has raised several legal questions, as past administrations have relied on law enforcement to interdict drug shipments.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2025
• With the help of its two cutter pursuit boats and other assets, the Munro tracked and interdicted the vessel using warning shots and disabling fire from a helicopter.
  — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 9 Mar. 2026
• That would give Chinese authorities the option to interdict some vessels while allowing supplies of food, for example, to go through.
  — Charles Hutzler, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
• The administration insisted the military forces won’t be used to interdict migrants.
  — Toluse Olorunnipa, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• So the government does have to understand the criminal elements within these groups well enough to infiltrate and interdict those longer, more dangerous plots.
  — Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 25 Aug. 2017
• The Coast Guard for decades has interdicted small vessels suspected of smuggling illicit narcotics.
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 16 Nov. 2025
• Coast Guard teams are deployed around the country and around the world and perform a wide range of missions that are considered essential, from search and rescue to interdicting drug vessels.
  — Ximena Bustillo, NPR, 14 Feb. 2026
• Bowman argued the administration should move to interdict arms shipments to Yemen, depriving the Houthis of a steady supply of weapons.
  — NBC News, 12 Mar. 2021
• Past administrations relied on law enforcement to interdict drug shipments.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2025
• The use of lethal of military force against drug boats is unprecedented, with past administrations relying on law enforcement to interdict drug shipments.
  — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2025
• Mayorkas said Thursday that migrants from those countries who are interdicted at sea will become ineligible for the lawful entry program.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2023