How to Use law-abiding in a Sentence

law-abiding

adjective
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  • These jurors were respectable, law-abiding women, similar to their male counterparts.
    — Alice Neikirk, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 July 2024
  • In the past, most of the 2nd Amendment cases to come before the Supreme Court have featured gun owners who were described as law-abiding and responsible.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • Crooked Joe has a 40-year record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.
    — Adriana Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2024
  • The firm has a sterling reputation thanks to word-of-mouth among their law-abiding clients.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2 May 2024
  • And the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The bill defines a law-abiding citizen as anyone not barred from owning a gun.
    — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Superman, positive, law-abiding, and shaped by the loving Kents, belongs to the day.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • In the past, gun rights advocates had argued that a responsible and law-abiding person has a right to have a gun for self-defense, and the Supreme Court had agreed.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • Critics accused them of politicizing his death to thwart their rights as law-abiding gun owners.
    — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • As the famed columnist Molly Ivins once observed, there is a telling irony in the speed with which law-abiding gun owners are inclined to threaten their critics.
    — TIME, 31 Jan. 2024
  • His attorney, Clyde Bennett II, said what happened was the exception in a law-abiding life.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Joe Biden’s critics often accuse him of waging a war on law-abiding Americans’ right to bear arms.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
  • In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
  • The victims of another scam were law-abiding Asian Americans.
    — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The suit describes the condition as unique to Meza and the Fragas: No other parolee in the state was prohibited from contact with a law-abiding citizen who was not a victim of the parolee.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 7 June 2023
  • More curious was the way a variety of law-abiding Americans developed an interest in the same line of thought.
    — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • There is no big wall around us, cordoning off a law-abiding chunk of the universe from the anarchic and inexplicable beyond.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • The challengers appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court, arguing that under the Illinois ban, law-abiding residents can't have firearms that are owned by millions of Americans.
    — Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 2 July 2024
  • The vast majority of Lake City rounds sold by retailers have gone to law-abiding citizens, from hunters and farmers to target shooters.
    — Ben Dooley Emily Rhyne, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Rather than addressing crime at its core, Governor Grisham is restricting the rights of law-abiding gun owners.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Dyer believes rigid gun control laws mainly hurt law-abiding weapon owners.
    — Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Lawyers for the plaintiffs told the judge that the governor had other options to address the problem but chose the inflict what some critics have described as a punishment on law-abiding residents.
    — Susan Montoya Bryan, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Per the official description, in the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • People blow off steam and then go back and become basically law-abiding citizens.
    — Glenn Rifkin, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2023
  • Over the last decade, Cardinal Burke, 75, has expressed doubts about the pope’s grasp on church teaching and accused him of alienating church law-abiding conservatives with his inclusive stance.
    — Ruth Graham, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Please make every effort to be as restrained, polite, reasonable and law-abiding as possible.
    — Marco Marcelline, PCMAG, 6 June 2023
  • Yet even for someone like Ohad – a father of three, a law-abiding and patriotic citizen, an Israeli success story – those lines may be eroding.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Evan is a law-abiding, decent reporter being held hostage for geopolitical leverage.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • There has been a collapse of responsible, law-abiding behavior.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 June 2024
  • This results in lax policing across the U.S., where theft has gone unpunished for too long and criminals take advantage of lax prosecution at the expense of law-abiding business owners.
    — WSJ, 24 Oct. 2023

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