How to Use put the kibosh on in a Sentence

put the kibosh on

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  • However, in the pandemic era, the park has put the kibosh on the latter.
    — Kathleen Christiansen, orlandosentinel.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • When that nod to Hulk’s recasting was scripted, did part of you expect the powers that be to come along and put the kibosh on it?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Aug. 2022
  • The coronavirus pandemic put the kibosh on it for the time being.
    — Deborah Martin, ExpressNews.com, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The pandemic put the kibosh on that trip, but Johnson stood by her commitment to me via Zoom.
    — Cheryl Hall, Dallas News, 13 Dec. 2020
  • Wisely, per The Athletic, then told his parents to put the kibosh on plans to travel to New York and see his debut.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Newsom showed support for Silicon Valley in putting the kibosh on two bills that sought to rein in Big Tech.
    — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2023
  • While its sub-six-second sprint to 60 mph might appear to lend some credence to its Sport badge, one turn of the steering wheel puts the kibosh on that notion.
    — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 4 Aug. 2023
  • No Churchill Downs hotel: Why one of the world's most famous racetracks has decided to put the kibosh on a $300 million project.
    — Ben Tobin, The Courier-Journal, 5 June 2021
  • Minhaj for a while seemed to have the inside track for the full-time job, but a heavily critical story in The New Yorker put the kibosh on that.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The risk is often that one unvaccinated person can put the kibosh on a whole group trip.
    — Laura Forman, WSJ, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Mildred tries to put the kibosh on everything and everyone who doesn’t live up to her standards.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Aug. 2021
  • The Miami Heat putting the kibosh on the comeback of comebacks in the Eastern Conference finals.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 1 June 2023
  • The coronavirus has put the kibosh on Carnival parades this year.
    — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 19 Nov. 2020
  • The coronavirus put the kibosh on this year’s Carnival parades.
    — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 19 Jan. 2021
  • However, the coronavirus pandemic put the kibosh on such arrangements and the debuts of the exhibits were pushed to next year.
    — Julius Young, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2020
  • Robert Osborne grew anxious about dinner when his Brooklyn co-op board put the kibosh on a plan to move a gas line for his kitchen renovation.
    — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Horvat recently put the kibosh on any public comments about his contract status, and figures to be one of the biggest fish on the market at the trade deadline.
    — Dallas News, 16 Dec. 2022
  • For now, one nation has put the kibosh on plans to geoengineer the planet, but this controversial science isn’t going away any time soon.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The new environmental protections put the kibosh on that plan.
    — oregonlive, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Pride of the Americas was originally scheduled for April 2020 before the pandemic put the kibosh on those plans.
    — Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Yet wet forecasts between May and October can put the kibosh on island fun, with some southern Andaman resorts even closing for the rainy season.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
  • Yet wet forecasts between May and October can put the kibosh on island fun, with some southern Andaman resorts even closing for the rainy season.
    — Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
  • Of course, the intense rain that put the kibosh on fire season brought its own problems, including mud and debris flows near wildfire burn scars and at least one person swept up by a tributary of the surging L.A. River.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Dec. 2021
  • But even if the Seahawks could put together the framework of a Wilson-for-Rodgers scenario – and the cap ramifications alone aren't insignificant – Wilson has the power to put the kibosh on it.
    — Nate Davis, USA Today, 1 June 2021
  • When Natalie had started getting interested in true crime a few years back, Helen had hastily put the kibosh on her intrigue.
    — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 7 Mar. 2022
  • For example, many of the members of the same group which authored this paper implicitly put the kibosh on the attempt to construct a unified linguistic family which spanned the Andaman Islanders and the Papuans.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2012
  • Traveling outside the country required exit permits, putting the kibosh on my grand plan to spend weekends gallivanting around Asia.
    — Lauretta Charlton, New York Times, 26 Jan. 2024
  • After the 2008 financial crisis put the kibosh on corporate spending accounts, the resort struggled.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 7 May 2022
  • Many fans and detractors have assumed that Tesla will eventually offer the Model S with a traditional wheel, but Musk recently put the kibosh on that with a terse tweet to an online query.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 27 July 2021
  • Republicans in both legislative chambers quickly put the kibosh on both efforts.
    — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 2 June 2022

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