How to Use edict in a Sentence

edict

noun
  • The government issued an edict banning public demonstrations.
  • The edict of size doesn’t just stop in the weight room with the current players.
    — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 22 Mar. 2024
  • Does that mean the NFL will create an edict to that end?
    — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2017
  • They’ve been issued an edict by the fans to clean house and start over.
    — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Some players aren’t thrilled with the mound-trip edict.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2018
  • The edict of the line is to be efficient, towable, and rugged.
    — Hayden Coplen, Outside Online, 22 Nov. 2020
  • The edict was that neither school was leaving the Big 12 that year.
    — John Talty | Jtalty@al.com, al, 22 July 2021
  • The edict went out that the club’s galáctico era was over.
    — Rory Smith, New York Times, 10 May 2024
  • The Mayor’s no-cars edict for the 2028 Olympics didn’t mention flights.
    — Bruce Haring, Deadline, 10 Aug. 2024
  • The church issued a style guide in the wake of Nelson’s August 2018 edict.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 18 Sep. 2020
  • So, the politicians have found a legal way around the voters’ edict.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2023
  • His wife, Christi, has a firm edict that his work clothes are never to touch hers.
    — Chuck Blount, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Apr. 2021
  • There is anger among Afghan women as a face veil edict splits the Taliban.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2022
  • One of them defies his edict to stay out of Annabelle's bedroom.
    — Dustin Nelson, EW.com, 30 Oct. 2023
  • An all-hands-on-deck edict has been issued to get the project up to speed — for now, the R1T is taking a back seat.
    — Edward Ludlow, Fortune, 7 Oct. 2021
  • The edict falls in line with a new vision and strategy for the hotel.
    — Vivian Song, Robb Report, 1 June 2021
  • Her crisis of faith came with this edict: Among the martyrs who got the boot was St. Viviana.
    — Kevin Fisher-Paulson, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2018
  • One edict said the most devout women wouldn’t leave the house at all, unless there’s need.
    — Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Sixty staffers, or about 5% of the company, left in the wake of Armstrong's edict.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 4 May 2021
  • One edict said the most devout women would not leave the house at all, unless there’s need.
    — Nabih Bulos, Chicago Tribune, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Some pols were reluctant to go along with the speaker’s edict.
    — Chris Sommerfeldt, New York Daily News, 16 May 2024
  • Erdogan can now issue edicts with the force of law and pack the courts with loyal judges.
    — Ian Bremmer, Time, 28 June 2018
  • The edict comes as the number of coronavirus cases in the state remains low.
    — Bloomberg.com, 6 May 2020
  • The shelter-in-place edict caused a drop in sales, which Arredondo said were on the rise before the coronavirus.
    — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • The dial-it-down edict following the attempt on Trump’s life sort of worked.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 16 July 2024
  • The Philips boys were too young to be subject to Napoleon’s edict, but Roget was leery of sending them off alone.
    — Claudia Kalb, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Apr. 2021
  • The leader of Grafton at the time issued an edict: Find another way.
    — ProPublica, 13 Apr. 2020
  • But the specter of the Taliban’s edicts targeting women and girls also looms at the Afghan Post.
    — Riazat Butt, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 July 2024
  • Ruff’s edict was that the team would play with more structure and accountability.
    — Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 24 Jan. 2025
  • Though the card has been around for almost two decades, interest in it has exploded over the last month amid a wave of anti-immigrant edicts from President Trump during his first days back in the White House.
    — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025

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