How to Use put the kibosh on in a Sentence

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• But Mayor Adams at the eleventh hour put the kibosh on those plans for this school year.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
• Should that put the kibosh on a trade that will nudge Steph Curry closer to his fifth ring?
  — Ricardo Sandoval, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
• However, in the pandemic era, the park has put the kibosh on the latter.
  — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Dec. 2020
• Mayor Adams ultimately put the kibosh on those plans for this school year.
  — Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 21 Jan. 2025
• The coronavirus pandemic put the kibosh on it for the time being.
  — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Mildred tries to put the kibosh on everything and everyone who doesn’t live up to her standards.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
• By Sunday, Rivoli allegedly put the kibosh on the show that was booked nine months in advance.
  — New York Post, FOXNews.com, 27 May 2025
• The coronavirus has put the kibosh on Carnival parades this year.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Nov. 2020
• When that nod to Hulk’s recasting was scripted, did part of you expect the powers that be to come along and put the kibosh on it?
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022
• The pandemic put the kibosh on that trip, but Johnson stood by her commitment to me via Zoom.
  — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2020
• The coronavirus put the kibosh on this year’s Carnival parades.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 19 Jan. 2021
• The new environmental protections put the kibosh on that plan.
  — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2022
• The mayor also put the kibosh on a section of the law limiting the use of restraints during detainee transport.
  — Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 28 July 2024
• Trump put the kibosh on the Biden kids’ Secret Service protection.
  — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
• Furthermore, the Moon is also at odds with Saturn, which means someone older might put the kibosh on your plans.
  — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 28 May 2025
• The network put the kibosh on this story for inexplicable reasons.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026
• For now, one nation has put the kibosh on plans to geoengineer the planet, but this controversial science isn’t going away any time soon.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2023
• Hank was once a baseball phenom who had a shot at the pros back in the Bay Area, until a car accident put the kibosh on his sports career.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Aug. 2025
• However, the coronavirus pandemic put the kibosh on such arrangements and the debuts of the exhibits were pushed to next year.
  — Julius Young, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2020
• Woods credits Adofo-Mensah for putting the kibosh on the deal that could have cost the firm nearly $1 billion.
  — Alec Lewis, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
• Robert Osborne grew anxious about dinner when his Brooklyn co-op board put the kibosh on a plan to move a gas line for his kitchen renovation.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• Newsom showed support for Silicon Valley in putting the kibosh on two bills that sought to rein in Big Tech.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
• While its sub-six-second sprint to 60 mph might appear to lend some credence to its Sport badge, one turn of the steering wheel puts the kibosh on that notion.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
• Horvat recently put the kibosh on any public comments about his contract status, and figures to be one of the biggest fish on the market at the trade deadline.
  — Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
• Wisely, per The Athletic, then told his parents to put the kibosh on plans to travel to New York and see his debut.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• When Natalie had started getting interested in true crime a few years back, Helen had hastily put the kibosh on her intrigue.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2022
• Minhaj for a while seemed to have the inside track for the full-time job, but a heavily critical story in The New Yorker put the kibosh on that.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
• The final jobs report for 2025 put the kibosh on a Federal Reserve rate cut coming later this month.
  — Fred Imbert, CNBC, 9 Jan. 2026
• The exorbitant cost of the trip and her entourage’s hard-partying antics would put the kibosh on any future US tours for Margaret.
  — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 15 Apr. 2026
• But, Cohen has repeatedly put the kibosh on that possibility.
  — Jenni Fink, MSNBC Newsweek, 2 Dec. 2025