How to Use criminalize in a Sentence

criminalize

verb
Definition of criminalizenext
Synonyms for criminalizenext
  • The march had been planned in response to a law that will criminalize some drag performances.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 2 Apr. 2023
  • And then the other two states there is either a ban or attempts to criminalize it.
    — CBS News, 6 Nov. 2022
  • Instead Hong Kong has criminalized Mr. Lai’s calls to uphold freedom and the rule of law.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 12 Jan. 2024
  • His first order of business was to introduce a state bill to criminalize the type of scam that led to his son’s death.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 13 May 2023
  • There is nothing in the text of the resolution that mentions banning or criminalizing the use or singing of the phrase.
    — Isabel C. Morales, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The law was also amended to criminalize acts such as stalking and voyeurism and allow for suspects to be tried as adults at age 16.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This legislative package will also criminalize both the act of making a threat of mass harm and adding to a threat with overt acts to further it.
    — Kyla Guilfoil, ABC News, 6 June 2022
  • That all recently came to a screeching halt when the city criminalized the substance.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Dissent has been criminalized as extremist and can lead to sentences of life in prison.
    — Shibani Mahtani, Washington Post, 8 June 2023
  • The decision is subject to state laws that can criminalize the practice.
    — Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2021
  • They may be criminalized for sleeping on the street and have a record that prevents them from accessing housing again.
    — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 29 July 2024
  • In India, the push to criminalize marital rape goes back decades.
    — Sarita Santoshini, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2022
  • The state is currently engaged in a year-long battle over the precedent of an 1849 law that criminalizes the death of an unborn child at the hands of anyone but the mother.
    — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The analysis of state laws finds most of the rules that criminalize address sharing do so by considering the practice a form of theft.
    — Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2023
  • So rather than, than further criminalize their hobby Jackson sought to draw them in.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 24 May 2022
  • Last month during a Pheu Thai rally, youth activists asked if Pheu Thai would amend the law that criminalizes criticism of the monarchy.
    — Muktita Suhartono, New York Times, 24 Apr. 2023
  • And five years after the first deepfakes started to appear, the first laws are just emerging that criminalize the sharing of faked images.
    — Matt Burgess, WIRED, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The Court was right that some presidential acts can’t be criminalized.
    — Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 1 July 2024
  • Last month, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed into law a first-of-its kind measure that would criminalize some drag performances in the state.
    — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The law, Gould said, would criminalize setting off fireworks and allow police to take fireworks as contraband and get them off the streets.
    — cleveland, 11 Feb. 2022
  • About 38 states have feticide statutes, which criminalize killing a fetus.
    — Melissa Jeltsen, The Atlantic, 1 July 2022
  • In Wisconsin — where an 1849 law that is still on the books would criminalize doctors for performing abortions in most cases — some providers plan to head out of state.
    — Devi Shastri, Journal Sentinel, 21 June 2022
  • Pita’s party had vowed to weaken a law that criminalizes criticism of the monarchy and shrink the military.
    — Muktita Suhartono, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Ziegler said efforts to criminalize abortions in the 1860s were led by physicians who knew exceptions to save a mother's life gave them leeway.
    — Stacey Barchenger, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2024
  • At the top of this year, dozens of bills trying to restrict or criminalize transgender health access were introduced across 11 states.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
  • Even when states don’t have such laws, prosecutors have used charges of murder to criminalize pregnant drug users.
    — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 5 May 2022
  • In recent months, hundreds of Just Stop Oil activists have been detained under a new rule that criminalizes slow walking protests.
    — Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Sarah Jones wrote about this new effort to criminalize dissent for New York Magazine.
    — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
  • The pope, however, has not called for the practice to be criminalized and a 2023 Vatican doctrinal ruling pointed out that children born through surrogacy can be baptized.
    — Antonia Mortensen, CNN, 19 Oct. 2024
  • Silver pointed out that the money currently being spent on criminalizing the homeless population could be better used to invest in long-term solutions.
    — Afdhel Aziz, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024

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