How to Use enforcer in a Sentence

enforcer

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  • The New York enforcer just finished a 25-year stint in prison.
    — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The right hand reached down and grabbed the handle of his ‘enforcer’ and started up with it.
    — Jonathan Bullington, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2025
  • The courts and enforcers adopted that standard over many decades.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Spoelstra for being the enforcer to see the vision through.
    — Safid Deen, USA TODAY, 10 June 2023
  • Cote was an enforcer—a tough guy whose job was to keep the other team's players in check.
    — Wired, 26 Sep. 2019
  • Of course, the consequence of that is the police do their bidding and are kind of their enforcers.
    — Los Angeles Times En Español, Los Angeles Times, 14 Nov. 2023
  • There's the brains behind the operation and then there's the enforcer.
    — Samantha Highfill, EW.com, 26 Jan. 2023
  • No law enforcers were harmed in the Nashville shooting.
    — J.d. Crowe | Jdcrowe@al.com, al, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Both districts have sought to transform the role to be more of a mentor than an enforcer.
    — NBC News, 4 June 2020
  • In some ways, as chief enforcer, Ratzinger served as bad cop to the good cop played by John Paul, who charmed the world with his humor and warmth.
    — Henry Chudeputy News Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Dec. 2022
  • Where Tau can’t go, its squad of nano-drones or its killing-machine enforcer, Aries, can.
    — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 9 July 2018
  • In the wake of the ruling, FTC enforcers remained optimistic.
    — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • So what are the consequences when the rule enforcers turn into the rule breakers?
    — Blake Bakkila, Good Housekeeping, 25 June 2019
  • The Socceroos’ captain is a midfield enforcer with looks to kill.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 20 June 2018
  • Clark played the run and the pass well, but Elliott, who played for the first time since Week 3, was an enforcer after the Chargers made catches.
    — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 17 Oct. 2021
  • Cross was an enforcer in the middle of the Terrapins’ defense.
    — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Apr. 2022
  • At the office, Mr. Saikawa was a stern enforcer of Mr. Ghosn’s plans, people who worked with him recall.
    — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2018
  • Still, the cat-and-mouse game that smugglers and sanctions enforcers have long played on the high seas isn’t likely to come to an abrupt end soon.
    — Benoit Faucon, WSJ, 1 Nov. 2018
  • Lloyd said Goodson is the enforcer and is always ready to hit somebody.
    — Jimmy Lay, al, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The match led them to a mafia enforcer who was killed a year later, the Taunton Daily Gazette reported.
    — Fox News, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Bush thought back to his first term, when his son had volunteered to play the enforcer role for his father.
    — Neil Swidey, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2018
  • While Iran is one of the world's top enforcers of the death penalty, such mass executions are rare.
    — Amir Vahdat, Fox News, 7 July 2018
  • But Chase offered him Paulie Walnuts, an enforcer who could be icy when a job was at hand.
    — Diana Dasrath, NBC News, 8 July 2022
  • The code enforcer’s warning came as a complete shock and Sean first thought that the town might grant an exemption.
    — Andrew Wimer, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • Still, that doesn’t mean Foligno and Hartman will be enforcers.
    — Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 18 Sep. 2019
  • Next to the office is the room where Mr. Okumu, known to residents as the center’s enforcer, lived with his wife, its cook.
    — Michael M. Phillips, WSJ, 16 Aug. 2022
  • Doc's teen daughter is kidnapped by a vicious enforcer (Beau Knapp) and heads roll on the way to getting her back.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The court ruled that the Water Works could not be both the owner and enforcer of a conservation easement.
    — Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Their antitrust enforcers initiated some of the first major anti-tech monopoly actions in decades.
    — Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Edmonton’s roster houses a terrific enforcer/power forward in Evander Kane, but injuries have impacted him in the last couple of seasons.
    — Allan Mitchell, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025

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