How to Use proscribe in a Sentence

proscribe

verb

• Much of that content was proscribed from streaming on Disney+ in the region.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• Such bullets, which can cause wider wound channels, are proscribed in most military use.
  — New York Times, 4 Mar. 2018
• Free speech was tremendously proscribed.
  — Eve Fairbanks, The Dial, 27 Jan. 2026
• If only Wolverine could make good on his threat to deal with the offender in the manner proscribed.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Dec. 2024
• Of course there are the ritual greetings and glances and such, but these should be minimal and strictly proscribed.
  — Christian Wiman, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2020
• Which is a concern with, How are these data systems proscribing my freedoms?
  — David Marchese David Marchese, New York Times, 18 Mar. 2023
• Shouting and chanting slogans are also proscribed after sunset.
  — Benjamin Harvey, Bloomberg.com, 26 May 2017
• Mourning, which would last at least two years for a widow, proscribed any jewelry except pearls and black onyx, with the only gold permitted being the wedding ring.
  — Judith Martin, Mercury News, 18 Aug. 2025
• For Risso, the curious twists of the mind are our bulwark against anything proscribed or preordained; our brains and our passions will, in his view, set us free.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2019
• The rule led to a stoppage of all fracking activity months before the government officially proscribed it.
  — David Wethe | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2019
• There were executioners to quiet those whom the Emperor proscribed.
  — WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
• Louisiana proscribes the naming of public buildings for living persons.
  — Drew Broach, NOLA.com, 25 May 2018
• Western forces should not be deployed to fight in Ukraine, and the use of Western weapons against civilian targets within Russia should be proscribed.
  — Bloomberg Opinion, Twin Cities, 12 Sep. 2024
• This is a man specifically proscribed as a terrorist for his associations with al Qaeda.
  — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN, 21 Feb. 2020
• Turkey’s government has vocally supported Hamas, but in Egypt, the group is strictly proscribed.
  — Nbc News, NBC news, 12 Oct. 2025
• Yet Florida’s law abandons this ideal by seeking to proscribe what professors can say on particular topics.
  — Michael R. Bloomberg, WSJ, 15 Aug. 2022
• It was held under the Chatham House rule, which proscribed attendees from disclosing who said what, but its agenda and attendees list are available online.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2017
• The separation was under terms proscribed by Ruby and Jodi Hildebrandt.
  — Skyler Caruso, Peoplemag, 20 Feb. 2024
• See, for instance, the efforts to mitigate the harms of drug use as opposed to proscribing individuals’ activities.
  — Christine Emba, The Atlantic, 8 July 2024
• London’s High Court ruled that the decision to proscribe the group was unlawful, but has kept the ban in place pending an appeals court ruling due Monday.
  — ABC News, 12 June 2026
• Alcohol is now proscribed for about 16 million people, as several others among the nation’s 77 provinces have already imposed curbs.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2020
• The new Regulation Best Interest proscribes some of the most offensive sales tactics of an industry replete with them.
  — Barry Ritholtz, latimes.com, 24 June 2019
• In an ideal world, where homosexuality was not only never legally proscribed, but also never the target of intense and widespread social stigma, this would be true.
  — James Kirchick, The New York Review of Books, 10 Jan. 2019
• The law prohibits the sale of junk food like ice cream, chocolate and potato chips in Chilean schools and proscribes such products from being advertised during television programs or on websites aimed at young audiences.
  — Andrew Jacobs, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• The United States is only further isolating itself and diminishing our declining prestige in the eyes of the rest of the world with his wish to proscribe only those who are not in his favor.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 May 2024
• Democrats championed the rights of business owners and employers all week, while Republicans sought ways to proscribe how employers can run their businesses during a pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2021
• The freedmen may have gained the right to vote (one that would be proscribed in the years to come in the South by post-Reconstruction laws establishing poll taxes, literacy tests and other measures).
  — The Root, 29 Sep. 2017
• The bottom line is that for far too long, college athletes have been one of the only subsets of American society who have been proscribed from accepting compensation that someone else is more than willing to give them.
  — Mike Finger, ExpressNews.com, 18 July 2019
• Designed as a kind of flow sheet, these pages would proscribe the steps that Lacassagne, his lab chief and students would follow in investigating each possible cause of death, with a series of observations to check off along the way.
  — Douglas Starr, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2011
• Last Friday, the High Court ruled that the government’s decision to proscribe the group as a terrorist organisation had been unlawful.
  — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 21 Feb. 2026