How do you use Crackdown in a sentence? See 20 example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like suppression or crushing, plus the exact meaning.
Crackdown in a sentence
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Crackdown meaning
Abruptly stern measures or disciplinary action; increased enforcement.
Synonyms of Crackdown
Example sentences (20)
Earlier this year, tourists were warned smoking has now been banned on 28 Spanish beaches in a tourist crackdown.
In the past two years, the authorities cited pandemic restrictions to bar all public memorials of the crackdown.
A crackdown is being launched against garish shopfronts turning a historic high street into a “second-class Las Vegas”.
However, significant protests haven’t arisen, likely due to the previous crackdown on Khan’s PTI party members.
As part of the crackdown, 44 dealers implicated in distribution of spurious liquor have been arrested in Tiruvarur district.
Netflix has kicked off its password-sharing crackdown efforts in Canada, New Zealand, Portugal, and Spain.
Now formal charges have been filed following an investigation, amidst a crackdown on alleged corruption in Chinese football.
A security force crackdown that followed saw over 500 people killed and more than 22,000 people detained.
Chicago's crackdown earlier this month on rogue buses, arriving without warning, has now led buses from Texas to the suburbs.
Police made four arrests in Hartlepool as part of a region-wide crackdown on serious and organised crime.
Nine Oxford Street candy stores were shut down in 2022 following a council crackdown on “dirty money”.
Police were out in force in Bury yesterday, Wednesday, as part of a crackdown on the transport system.
New government funding will be used to crackdown on anti-social behaviour on a Sandwell high street.
Rights groups have condemned the government crackdown, which it says has included arbitrary arrests.
Back alleys in Middlesbrough have been given a new lease of life thanks to a town centre crackdown.
Biden was also expected to raise China’s human rights record, including its treatment of Muslim Uyghurs and crackdown on Hong Kong.
He strongly condemned the Biden administration’s crackdown when it was first announced in February.
Syria’s membership was frozen following Syrian President Bashar Assad’s brutal crackdown on the 2011 mass protests against his rule.
French authorities are planning a crackdown on communities like those involved in Alex's case.
In particular is a very significant crackdown on as the “gray business influence” in Thailand.
Common combinations with crackdown
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- crackdown on 108×
- the crackdown 29×
- crackdown by 11×
- government crackdown 10×
- crackdown that 8×
- in crackdown 8×
- of crackdown 8×
- brutal crackdown 6×
- amid crackdown 5×
- crackdown has 5×
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