Enforcer is an English word with synonyms like assistant or helper. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Enforcer in a sentence
Related words
Enforcer meaning
- One who enforces.
- A hired strongman, especially working for the underworld.
- The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.
Using Enforcer
- The main meaning on this page is: One who enforces. | A hired strongman, especially working for the underworld. | The member of a group, especially of a gang, charged with keeping dissident members obedient.
- Useful related words include: hatchet man, assistant, helper, help.
- In the example corpus, enforcer often appears in combinations such as: enforcer of, an enforcer, enforcer and.
Context around Enforcer
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Enforcer
- In this selection, "enforcer" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, code, strongest, canucks, gino, brayden and nigel stand out and add context to how "enforcer" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a code enforcer before and a hired enforcer with a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "enforcer" sits close to words such as aficionados, aiadmk and airships, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with enforcer
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The EU competition enforcer declined to comment. (7 words)
Is he a cheap-shot artist, heel, agitator or enforcer? (10 words)
Adam Smasher was the Arasaka clan's strongest enforcer and a man without a conscience. (15 words)
The Bloodline’s Enforcer – who is the younger brother of Jimmy and Jey Uso, and the son of Attitude Era legend Rikishi – will face the Hollywood superstar in a massive match at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia next week. (39 words)
Collingwood could be battling Port Adelaide or Brisbane in a fortnight for a spot in the grand final, but enforcer Brayden Maynard faces a nervous wait to see if he will play in that preliminary final. (36 words)
I'd say the middles, compared to the O'Loughglins, James Grahams, Sam Burgess, Jamie Peacocks, we are sort of missing that enforcer type of a middle even though the middles are top. (33 words)
Is he a cheap-shot artist, heel, agitator or enforcer? (10 words)
Example sentences (20)
He continued to say the new development is that the sheriff is now the code enforcer of the cannabis moratorium, where the county did not have a code enforcer before.
Adam Smasher was the Arasaka clan's strongest enforcer and a man without a conscience.
An image created more than a decade ago by Northwest Coast artist Andy Everson was given an added touch this week to honour the passing of Vancouver Canucks’ enforcer Gino Odjick.
Ben Stokes has been the enforcer for England in the past doing that, but his body is not going to allow him to do that role for England either.
Collingwood could be battling Port Adelaide or Brisbane in a fortnight for a spot in the grand final, but enforcer Brayden Maynard faces a nervous wait to see if he will play in that preliminary final.
Former Panthers enforcer Nigel Plum was celebrating this week after a quick sale of his home in regional New South Wales.
Gosling's Holland is a private eye that teams up with Crowe's Jackson, a hired enforcer with a knack for violence.
His lingering humanity and inability to decide if being a petty criminal deserves a death penalty add to the dilemmas for this futuristic law enforcer.
Is he a cheap-shot artist, heel, agitator or enforcer?
Mexican authorities arrested a man known as the top enforcer for the Chapitos faction of the Sinaloa Cartel.
Riley Cote, a former junior and NHL player who was also known as an enforcer on the ice, shares that opinion.
That value will increase, not lessen, with the loss of America as the default, superpower enforcer in the region.
The Bloodline’s Enforcer – who is the younger brother of Jimmy and Jey Uso, and the son of Attitude Era legend Rikishi – will face the Hollywood superstar in a massive match at Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia next week.
The Enforcer plays the role of a standard rifleman, and if raiders are not careful, this guard will put a bolt-sized hole into anyone in its cross-hairs.
The EU competition enforcer declined to comment.
The film follows Hanks, a mob boss enforcer during The Great Depression, setting out on a journey of revenge alongside his son.
After her father also dies, Maya — embittered and alienated — is groomed for a life of crime by Kingpin and becomes a deadly underworld enforcer.
AN LTO ENFORCER flags down a pickup without a license plate on Edsa in Cubao, Quezon City, during the implementation of the agency’s “no plate, no travel” policy.
From evidence that emerged during a trial this year, Haase was reportedly recruited as an "enforcer" by a group of criminals, and charged with recovering a debt of around £280,000.
I'd say the middles, compared to the O'Loughglins, James Grahams, Sam Burgess, Jamie Peacocks, we are sort of missing that enforcer type of a middle even though the middles are top.
Common combinations with enforcer
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- enforcer of 12×
- an enforcer 9×
- enforcer and 8×
- the enforcer 8×
- code enforcer 4×
- enforcer for 4×
- law enforcer 4×
- enforcer in 3×
- competition enforcer 3×
- chief enforcer 3×