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 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
  • 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
  • In the wake of the ruling, FTC enforcers remained optimistic.
    — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 26 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • My peers of enforcers have become statistics and the N.H.L. is in denial.
    — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Again and again, the state is invoked in Pistor’s analysis as the ultimate enforcer of the law.
    — Adam Tooze, The New York Review of Books, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Inside the vehicles were members of La Línea, a gang that served as enforcers for the Juárez cartel.
    — Ieva Jusionyte, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The buzz: This one’s a documentary from 2016 looking at the changing roles of enforcers in the modern NHL.
    — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2020
  • But during a free-speech conflagration, who should play the role of enforcer?
    — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2023
  • Saban’s enforcer, Scott O’Brien, soon visited Egues and told him to never greet the coach.
    — Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The group also meets Mercer, who's the chief enforcer of the Commonwealth and an imposing force.
    — Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Aug. 2021
  • Since portraying the law enforcer, McGill's acting credits run the gamut.
    — Lanford Beard, Peoplemag, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Joan Rivers was a survivor of a sexist era: a victim, a rebel, and, finally, an enforcer.
    — The New Yorker, 10 May 2020
  • He’s brought football to the basketball court this year, serving as the team’s enforcer inside and, at 6-foot-4, a stretch big man on offense.
    — Shane Hoffmann, oregonlive, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Both Intel and Qualcomm do business in China, and both have seen deals scuttled by Chinese antitrust enforcers before in the past.
    — Rohan Goswami,kif Leswing, CNBC, 20 Sep. 2024
  • Antitrust enforcers are preparing to accuse Visa of taking steps to keep rivals from challenging its dominance in the debit card market, said the people.
    — Kartikay Mehrotra, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2024

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