How to Use outlaw in a Sentence

outlaw

1 of 2 noun
  • Billy the Kid was one of the most famous outlaws of America's early history.
  • The law is the law, and this outlaw of the emergent video age must serve a short jail term for his offense.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Ready to hop on your horse and become an outlaw riding through the desert?
    Stephen Daw, Billboard, 20 Aug. 2021
  • TikTok was banned in India in 2020 – could the U.S. outlaw it, too?
    Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Verdict: Could be great fun — who doesn’t want to see Blanchett as a space outlaw?
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The Western films are a retelling of the adventures of famed outlaw William H. Bonney, a.k.a.
    Jillian Sederholm, EW.com, 5 May 2023
  • And the country outlaw is a current nominee for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
    Jason Mellard, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 May 2023
  • Ben goes back to 1898 and must take on a deadly outlaw in the frontier town of Salvation.
    Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 17 Oct. 2022
  • Cutrone also just let the models know that the theme is outlaws — just like the agency — and the theme music of the night will be from the Sopranos.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 12 Sep. 2023
  • But a local outlaw, Jugga – a Sikh – sacrifices his life to save the train.
    Ajay Verghese, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2022
  • On a pillar in the center of the Historic Springdale Pub hangs a poster for a most unusual outlaw.
    oregonlive, 4 Oct. 2022
  • He was raised a little over two hours east of Dallas in the small town of Pittsburg, then got famous on a new-school brand of outlaw country.
    Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas News, 24 Mar. 2023
  • Now, Snyder is adding to his canon of large-scale sci-fi with Rebel Moon, a galaxy-spanning space opera about a band of misfit outlaws.
    Hemal Jhaveri, WIRED, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Robin Hood, or the group behind the outlaw, will choose who gets their funds back based on the applications received—the more detail in them, the better.
    Fortune, 31 Mar. 2022
  • The lone survivor of that opening massacre is a child, Nat Love, who grows up to be an outlaw who robs other bank robbers.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Nov. 2021
  • That is very much against the spirit of the NCAA rule that outlaws staff members scouting opponents in-person.
    J. Brady McCollough, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • The new items all fall under four categories, starting with cheesesteaks, which includes the Philly, the outlaw and the monster.
    Antonia Debianchi, PEOPLE.com, 5 July 2022
  • During the drive, Cutrone provides another pep talk to the models, reminding them of the outlaw theme.
    Hedy Phillips, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
  • In the film Baldwin plays a grizzled outlaw on the run from authorities with his 13-year-old grandson.
    Faith Karimi, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Hoyt is a gambler and an outlaw who lays low in Independence.
    Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Baldwin is planning to resume his role in the film as grizzled outlaw Harland Rust.
    Meg Jamesstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2023
  • The vengeful and murderous outlaw Frank Griffin (Jeff Daniels) is hot on his heels, killing anyone who gets in his way.
    Sophie Hanson, Harper's BAZAAR, 24 June 2022
  • The tale of the Old West’s most notorious outlaw is retold in this new western drama.
    Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • In the game, a mercenary outlaw named V is on the search for a one-of-a-kind implant that doubles as a key to immortality.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Oct. 2023
  • Nat Love is an outlaw, yes – but Majors portrays him as a man who sings, cries, laughs, shoots ‘em up and jumps on a galloping horse.
    Anika Reed, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The episode shows the smooth-talking outlaw — with the aid of a female prison guard — bolting from a prison transport truck, and racing for the Mexico border.
    Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • In 1972, Foster started hanging out with members of the Dirty Dozen outlaw biker gang.
    Richard Ruelas, The Arizona Republic, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Along with their friends and a mysterious masked outlaw, Ernest and Célestine try their best to bring music and happiness back to the land of bears.
    Lise Pedersen, Variety, 17 June 2022
  • The ban outlaws all abortions except in the case of a fatal fetal anomaly and cases of serious health risk to the mother.
    Casey Smith, The Indianapolis Star, 7 June 2023
  • Tom brings the muscle and the menace as a merciless outlaw – but Heather is not your typical damsel in distress.
    Manori Ravindran, Variety, 25 Jan. 2023
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outlaw

2 of 2 verb
  • That type of gun was outlawed last year.
  • The government passed a bill outlawing the hiring of children under the age of 12.
  • And to outlaw any attempt to charge a per-mile tax on driving.
    Mary Jo Pitzl, The Arizona Republic, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Hurts gained six first downs on sneaks in the Super Bowl, which prompted some in the league to suggest the pushing part of the play should be outlawed.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Ten states now have outlawed certain kinds of assault-style rifles as well as large clips.
    Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2023
  • Texas naysayers who found the Edgar troubling tried outlawing it.
    Myriam Gurba, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • States have numerous ways to outlaw abortions that don’t involve judgments about the life of the mother.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • After more than two hundred years of French slavery and colonial rule, Haiti broke free and emerged as the first nation to outlaw slavery and the slave trade in 1804.
    Marlene L. Daut, Essence, 17 Oct. 2023
  • It was outlawed in the same law that forbade dropping rocks and logs on catfish, which tells you what fisheries managers thought of the practice.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Like much of the administration’s work, the plan would not outlaw any of the fees, since the agency lacks such authority.
    Tony Romm, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
  • But over time, these were outlawed or abandoned as too dangerous.
    Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
  • In 1928, the Kellogg-Briand Pact, an international treaty, outlawed most forms of war.
    Amanda Taub, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The Fair Housing Act of 1968 outlawed redlining, but the effects are still evident today.
    Javacia Harris Bowser, Good Housekeeping, 14 Mar. 2023
  • The state law, which takes effect in 2027, also outlaws potassium bromate, used in baked goods and tortillas.
    Julie Creswell, New York Times, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The rules also outlaw blocking access to a highway or other street where a sideshow is occurring.
    Sarah Ravani, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 May 2023
  • Still, the munitions, which explode in the air, releasing smaller bomblets, are outlawed in more than 120 countries.
    Claire Parker, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
  • The result was the 1948 Cannabis Control Act, which outlawed most parts of the hemp plant but not its mature stems and seeds, which were, at the time, believed to contain no psychoactive chemicals.
    Time, 18 Aug. 2023
  • After outlawing alternate helmets for nearly a decade, the NFL allowed teams to use them again last year.
    Victoria Hernandez, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
  • In 1882, President Chester Alan Arthur signed a measure outlawing polygamy.
    Chicago Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
  • In the 17th century, the ruling Tokugawa shogunate closed its borders to the outside world and outlawed the presence of foreigners, the first episode explains.
    Emma Stefansky, The Atlantic, 21 Dec. 2023
  • In America, in the early nineteen-hundreds, at least six states outlawed tipping, with penalties in one state of up to thirty days in jail for tipper and tippee.
    Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Los Angeles has outlawed tents within 500 feet of schools and banned lying down or storing belongings in places that block the sidewalk.
    Andy Newman, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • The film follows the lengths that women in Europe must go to access medical procedures that are outlawed in their own countries.
    Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 17 Mar. 2024
  • At least 13 nations have outlawed the Hizb ut-Tahrir movement, which seeks to establish an Islamic state (also known as a caliphate).
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • In the first century A.D., the emperor Tiberius tried to outlaw kissing at state functions, likely because of an epidemic of cold sores.
    Franz Lidz, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2024
  • Meanwhile, the Biden administration is still trying to stifle strict new laws that more than a dozen states have imposed to outlaw abortions.
    Amanda Seitz, Chicago Tribune, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The Huntsville city council on Thursday, after an hour of discussion, tabled a proposal that would outlaw a driver handling a cell phone.
    Paul Gattis | Pgattis@al.com, al, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Make sure to still check the policy at your school because some universities, like Rutgers, also outlaw those items.
    Kate Perez, USA TODAY, 4 Aug. 2023
  • When their Danish rulers outlawed Faroese in 1538, islanders were forced to take their language underground, only using it in private.
    Melissa Locker, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Cluster munitions, outlawed in more than 120 countries, explode in the air over a target, releasing up to hundreds of smaller bomblets across a wide area.
    John Hudson, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023

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