How to Use enjoin in a Sentence

enjoin

verb
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Synonyms for enjoinnext
  • The judge enjoined them from selling the property.
  • He was enjoined by his conscience from telling a lie.
  • Mal Bellairs had a rich, deep voice, and clearly enjoined the encounter.
    — Barbara Benson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • In the Catholic moral system there is a list of works of mercy enjoined on believers.
    — John Crowley, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Our faith, in its wisdom, enjoins us to be the enemy of the oppressor and an aid to the oppressed.
    — Ruth Marks Eglash, Fox News, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The funding proposal failed to enjoin the full support of the council.
    — Craig Lyons, Post-Tribune, 6 Oct. 2017
  • We are enjoined to seek and create the change that our world so desperately needs.
    — Washington Post, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The rule was first enjoined by courts, but the injunction was lifted by the Supreme Court on September 11.
    — Julia Ainsley, NBC News, 18 Oct. 2019
  • His lawyers also were enjoined not to suggest a reason for the shooting.
    — Paula Allen, ExpressNews.com, 9 Nov. 2019
  • The preliminary injunction asks the court to enjoin the law.
    — Lalee Ibssa, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2021
  • The court enjoined the Neuschwanders from renting their property on a short-term basis.
    — Jack Greiner, Cincinnati.com, 5 July 2017
  • The archives faces a Nov. 12 deadline to release a first batch of information, which Trump has asked Chutkan to enjoin.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
  • The two appeals courts had enjoined the entire ban, meaning that aliens had to be admitted as before.
    — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Like the climate change activists who delayed last week's Harvard-Yale football game and chanted it at the voice enjoining them to leave the field.
    — CBS News, 1 Dec. 2019
  • The county gets the court to enjoin this new tax and continues to collect the first occupational tax.
    — Heather Gann | Hgann@al.com, al, 7 Oct. 2022
  • Furthermore, Christian husbands were enjoined to love their wives and be faithful to them.
    — Charlotte Allen, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2018
  • That’s the finding of a federal judge who has enjoined a law to silence groups that run pregnancy help centers.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Aug. 2023
  • While the suits are being filed separately, lawyers intend to enjoin them at a later stage, Scharg said.
    — Bynadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 28 Sep. 2022
  • Owens rejected that assertion and enjoined the new law, which was to take effect Sunday.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2023
  • Plaintiffs of course challenged EO-2, and it was also enjoined — first in district courts and then in federal courts of appeal.
    — David French, National Review, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Plaintiffs in the case have asked the court to enjoin the Forest Service from spilling retardant into waterways.
    — oregonlive, 1 Apr. 2023
  • When the music is enjoined to shift the production into high gear, the ensuing reverie doesn’t always feel earned.
    — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2023
  • If the case proceeds, a defendant might be able to file a lawsuit in federal court to enjoin proceedings in the state court, Chandler said.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2021
  • The other striking feature of SCIOs is that they are expressly enjoined to break into new high-tech sectors.
    — The Economist, 20 July 2017
  • The text then enjoins the meditator to pay attention to lots of other things—feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells, and much, much more (yes, including pus and blood).
    — Robert Wright, WIRED, 12 Aug. 2017
  • On May 24, a complaint signed by Kennedy asked the federal court to enjoin Wallace from interfering with the students.
    — Patricia Sullivan, Time, 11 Aug. 2021
  • Nor do courts engage in prior restraint, enjoining speech before it has been made.
    — John W. Dean, CNN, 6 June 2017
  • Unless this Court enjoins ICE’s conduct, the fear that exists across our respective states...will persist.
    — oregonlive, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Trump’s promised executive order would be challenged in the courts and likely enjoined until the case was resolved.
    — Salvador Rizzo, The Seattle Times, 31 Oct. 2018
  • For now, the Charlottesville council's decision has been enjoined by a court order.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 20 July 2017

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