How to Use interdict in a Sentence

interdict

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  • Then there are the border crossers that agents are unable to interdict.
    — Washington Post, 3 June 2021
  • And the trucks carrying the munitions the Russians want to interdict are just a small part of a much larger flow of goods and commerce moving around in Poland and Ukraine and across the border.
    — Robert Burns, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This is interdicting the parents before the kids get older.
    — Dan Gelston, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
  • The inspections were meant to interdict people and drug smuggling.
    — Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Kelly said Seals was killed trying to interdict the suspects who later killed three others.
    — Jasmine Aguilera, Time, 12 Dec. 2019
  • This is why any notion of using the military to interdict smuggling at the border is a terrible idea.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 29 Dec. 2016
  • His ability to interdict grain shipments led to hardship inside the walls.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 9 June 2020
  • McWhirter added this was the largest amount of explosive material seized since the protests began, and the first time police have interdicted completed bombs in the same time frame.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 10 Dec. 2019
  • On average, every day, D.H.S. stops or interdicts ten people that are on the terror watch list trying to come into the country.
    — NBC News, 24 June 2018
  • Agents responded to try to interdict the boat and saw several people in the water who appeared to be in distress near Children’s Pool around 5:20 a.m., Stephenson said.
    — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2021
  • Bowman argued the administration should move to interdict arms shipments to Yemen, depriving the Houthis of a steady supply of weapons.
    — NBC News, 12 Mar. 2021
  • No one was arrested, and the ultralight flew back to Mexico before federal agents were able to interdict it.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 4 Dec. 2020
  • Those people are interdicted at the border by Customs and Border Patrol.
    — Fox News, 18 July 2018
  • After billions of dollars spent fortifying the southern border, the two governments still interdict only a fraction of the drugs shipped to the United States.
    — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
  • After billions of dollars spent fortifying the Southern border, the two governments still interdict only a fraction of the drugs shipped to the United States.
    — Tim Golden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
  • After the Manhattan Project commandeered the mine in 1943 and forced miners to work round-the-clock shifts in the open pit under searchlights, the mine’s name was formally interdicted from reproduction and erased from maps.
    — Roger Peet, The New Republic, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The report did not say which country interdicted the two January tile shipments or whether the other three shipments were delivered to Damascus.
    — Michael Schwirtz, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Law enforcement can interdict shipments and imprison dealers, but the success is invariably short-lived.
    — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 29 Mar. 2010
  • That would give Chinese authorities the option to interdict some vessels while allowing supplies of food, for example, to go through.
    — Charles Hutzler, WSJ, 4 Aug. 2022
  • Mayorkas said fentanyl is not a new problem and urged lawmakers to support more funding to increase technology to interdict drugs.
    — Joseph Morton, Dallas News, 20 Apr. 2023
  • The task force will look at using AI to identify precursor chemicals exported from China and other countries and sent to Mexico, then interdict them in the process.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 21 Apr. 2023
  • In these same photos, their genitals have been blurred, interdicted by Photoshop.
    — Jordan Castro, Harper's Magazine, 5 Jan. 2024
  • So the government does have to understand the criminal elements within these groups well enough to infiltrate and interdict those longer, more dangerous plots.
    — Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The troops will provide Border Patrol with surveillance of the river from the ground and the air, but will not apprehend immigrants or interdict drug trafficking operations.
    — San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2018
  • Italy’s navy was interdicting human traffickers, and the leader of an army controlling much of eastern Libya had vowed to use force if its warships sailed into Libyan waters without permission.
    — Drew Hinshaw, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2017
  • The Perry-class frigates could operate as part of a carrier task force, act as a bodyguard for merchant convoys in dangerous waters, interdict drug shipments at sea, or show the flag during regional crises.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 May 2020
  • China is now the world’s premier commercial maritime power, and its strategic hold over the world’s supply routes could be used to interdict or restrict U.S. trade, troop movements and freedom of navigation in a range of different ways.
    — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The reversal of the ban represented a rare contradiction by Lebanon's government of a ruling by the country's censorship committee to interdict a film.
    — Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2018
  • As at December 17, no police officer has been interdicted as a result of any incidents relating to the protests in various districts since June 9.
    — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
  • DEA officials told lawmakers that, in the midst of a counternarcotics mission, civilians on a boat being interdicted fired first, prompting Honduran officers to return fire.
    — chicagotribune.com, 13 July 2017

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