How to Use gag order in a Sentence

gag order

noun
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  • The judge has issued a gag order.
  • Planned trial date: March 4 Last week: The big event was the gag order.
    — Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2023
  • The gag order is on hold for now, while the appeals court weighs the issue.
    — Tom jackman, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The judge imposed a gag order on all involved in the trial.
    — Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Five days after the arrest, a judge signed a sweeping gag order in the case.
    — Ajc Homepage, ajc, 5 Mar. 2018
  • The judge’s gag order prevented her and her lawyers from speaking to the press.
    — Arielle Gray, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Jan. 2022
  • This past week, a gag order briefly barred writing about Hamzah.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Apr. 2021
  • Kemp had issued a gag order in the case to ensure a fair trial.
    — Tom Steele, Dallas News, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The court has issued a restrictive gag order on the case.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • The motion for a gag order is a complete joke and baseless.
    — Mj Lee, CNN, 15 June 2018
  • The New York judge was the first to impose a gag order against Trump, before Chutkan soon followed.
    — Alison Durkee, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The court will decide on Sunday whether to lift a gag order on other details of the case.
    — Tia Goldenberg, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Sport has issued a gag order in the case, prohibiting lawyers from speaking to the press.
    — Mike Cason | McAson@al.com, al, 6 Jan. 2020
  • The judge has imposed a gag order on all parties to the custody battle.
    — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 17 June 2019
  • But with the lifting of the gag order, McCraw said he had been freed to explain what had happened.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2021
  • But with the lifting of the gag order, Mr. McCraw said he had been freed to explain what had happened.
    — New York Times, 4 June 2021
  • But after an appeals court ruled against Judge Oda's gag order in the case, Rittgers filed the motion again.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Harold Mesick, a lawyer for Ruben Flores, declined to comment on the case, citing the gag order.
    — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
  • The judge amended the gag order to cover his and Mr. Bragg’s families.
    — Ben Protess, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2024
  • The sides wrestled with the idea of a gag order, which was never formally addressed by the court.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 26 June 2024
  • There’s a gag order on telling the truth, in real life and in our fictional accounts.
    — Womensmedia, Forbes, 2 Jan. 2022
  • The judge’s gag order doesn’t prevent him from declaring his innocence of the charges.
    — Byron Tau, WSJ, 20 June 2019
  • Lemarr is under a gag order in her court case and couldn't discuss the seizure of her animals.
    — John Reinan, Star Tribune, 19 Jan. 2021
  • The gag order has since been rescinded by a higher court.
    — Keith Bierygolick, Cincinnati.com, 2 Sep. 2019
  • The presiding judge on the case issued a gag order on Tuesday.
    — Pamela Kirkland, CNN, 8 July 2020
  • While part of the gag order was already lifted, some of it remains in effect.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Freed from a gag order that had mostly silenced him in recent weeks, Al Watkins was ready to talk.
    — Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 15 May 2018
  • The parties in the case are under a gag order, unable to communicate with the press.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN, 15 Dec. 2022
  • The 55-year-old’s defense team first asked for a gag order in late October, pointing to at least a dozen new civil lawsuits filed against Combs after his September arrest.
    — Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2024
  • In his quest to lift his partial gag order, Trump had been seeking the freedom to publicly criticize anyone associated with the case.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 12 Sep. 2024

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