How to Use moratorium in a Sentence

moratorium

noun

• The treaty calls for a nuclear testing moratorium.
• The tribe rebuked Biden in the first days of his term over the oil and gas moratorium.
  — Brady McCombs, ajc, 13 Oct. 2022
• New York is poised to change how the moratorium works in light of that ruling.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2021
• The moratorium runs through the end of this year, when Dunne, Portsmouth’s mayor, hopes to get some guidance from the state.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023
• The moratorium has been in place since the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020 and was poised to lift at the end of the month.
  — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2022
• Naturally, the moratorium is a good thing for the future of the species.
  — Joe Cermele, Field & Stream, 26 July 2023
• By the time Trump takes office in January, the moratorium will have been on the books for two years.
  — Jimmy Lovrien, Twin Cities, 13 Nov. 2024
• On the fifth day of Bush’s protest, August 3, a new 60-day moratorium was announced.
  — Xavier Scott Marshall, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 Sep. 2021
• In New York, an eviction fight is ramping up now that the moratorium is over.
  — CBS News, 4 Apr. 2022
• By Wednesday, the landlord groups had filed a request that Friedrich block the new moratorium.
  — Tierney Sneed, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
• Many deals will be reached in the first hours of free agency, but teams can’t sign players until the free agent moratorium ends at 9:01 a.m.
  — Jason Anderson, Sacramento Bee, 29 June 2024
• And then there's a couple that just to have outright moratoriums.
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• The moratorium between these two sports icons led to an online essay and a doubling-down by The King.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 5 Jan. 2022
• But in late August, the Supreme Court struck the new moratorium down, leaving millions at risk of being kicked out of their homes.
  — Sarah Ewall-Wice, CBS News, 24 Sep. 2021
• Segovia supports extending the moratorium until at least the end of the year.
  — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Sep. 2021
• If a pause is not put in place soon, the letter said governments should step in and create a moratorium.
  — Alexandra Meeks, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• On Tuesday, the court said that from the time the moratorium lifted in late August through Christmas Eve, 989 writs of eviction were signed.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2022
• The Weed Street case, which began more than two years ago, predated the moratorium.
  — Ginny Monk, Hartford Courant, 11 July 2025
• The current statewide moratorium was set to expire in 2025.
  — Sylvan Lebrun, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2024
• One of the main reasons for the moratorium was to reduce air pollution from the idling vehicles.
  — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2023
• The moratorium was imposed in response to concerns about unbridled growth in the city and its ETJ.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Nov. 2021
• That is, unless Congress chooses to approve a new eviction moratorium like the one that was struck down by the Supreme Court last week.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 31 Aug. 2021
• The moratorium is not subject to City Council approval and was not voted on by the council.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 July 2025
• That means the White House's move to extend its payment moratorium this week will dent its sales and profits, the company said.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 8 Apr. 2022
• Only in New Mexico has a statewide moratorium been in place for as long.
  — New York Times, 14 Jan. 2022
• Instead, the cases were put on hold by the moratorium, and rent continued to go unpaid.
  — New York Times, 16 Nov. 2021
• Throughout the health crisis — amid moratoriums and federal rent aid — that rate was cut in about half.
  — Nushrat Rahman, Detroit Free Press, 30 July 2024
• Here’s the most common reason to act now: Since the start of the moratorium, up to 30 million borrowers have gotten a new loan servicer.
  — Janet Novack, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• This could take the form of a targeted and specific moratorium on some of the rules regulating these properties.
  — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 23 July 2025
• The moratorium, enacted July 1, was designed to give county officials time to create regulations for data centers, which the county does not currently have on the books.
  — Killian Baarlaer, The Courier-Journal, 3 July 2025