How to Use law-abiding in a Sentence

law-abiding

adjective

• Crooked Joe has a 40-year record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.
  — Adriana Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2024
• The firm has a sterling reputation thanks to word-of-mouth among their law-abiding clients.
  — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2 May 2024
• Plus, a war on immigrants, most of whom are law-abiding, pay taxes and do the work others will not do, and for low pay.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 9 July 2025
• And the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.
  — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
• And any law-abiding American will file disclosures on the trusts every year to the IRS.
  — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
• If a law-abiding citizen can face this for simply coming home, then no one is safe.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
• The bill defines a law-abiding citizen as anyone not barred from owning a gun.
  — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• Superman, positive, law-abiding, and shaped by the loving Kents, belongs to the day.
  — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
• The foreign freeloaders were totally law-abiding, here to do the jobs Americans wouldn’t do.
  — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
• In the past, gun rights advocates had argued that a responsible and law-abiding person has a right to have a gun for self-defense, and the Supreme Court had agreed.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• Critics accused them of politicizing his death to thwart their rights as law-abiding gun owners.
  — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
• As the famed columnist Molly Ivins once observed, there is a telling irony in the speed with which law-abiding gun owners are inclined to threaten their critics.
  — TIME, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the past, most of the 2nd Amendment cases to come before the Supreme Court have featured gun owners who were described as law-abiding and responsible.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
• His attorney, Clyde Bennett II, said what happened was the exception in a law-abiding life.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
• Joe Biden’s critics often accuse him of waging a war on law-abiding Americans’ right to bear arms.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
• Close to a million law-abiding companies have already complied with the law, and this ruling should be stayed and overturned on appeal.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
• Close to a million law-abiding companies have already complied with the law, and this ruling should be stayed and overturned on appeal.
  — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
• In this case, Shanks was put on probation for a year and must remain law-abiding and not commit the same or similar offenses.
  — Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
• As a law-abiding citizen and a taxpayer, the property is deeded in our name.
  — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 16 July 2025
• But the – the folks who are otherwise law-abiding, tax-paying and – and enriching communities, there's got to be a better way.
  — / Cbs News, CBS News, 15 June 2025
• In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 June 2024
• In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
• For too long, our state representatives have turned a blind eye to the voices of victims and law-abiding citizens.
  — Carl Demaio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
• Robinson complained that law-abiding people were being made to suffer because of the actions of one person.
  — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
• The victims of another scam were law-abiding Asian Americans.
  — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
• The suit describes the condition as unique to Meza and the Fragas: No other parolee in the state was prohibited from contact with a law-abiding citizen who was not a victim of the parolee.
  — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 7 June 2023
• Thousands of law-abiding Americans do this every day.
  — Jared Gans, The Hill, 29 Jan. 2026
• Any good, law-abiding citizens would know better than to put themselves in harm’s way.
  — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 28 Jan. 2026
• Thousands of law-abiding Americans do this every day.
  — Naomi Lim, The Washington Examiner, 27 Jan. 2026
• Every day, by caprice, the lives of ordinary, law-abiding people—our neighbors—are being destroyed.
  — Erin Neil, New Yorker, 21 Jan. 2026