Explore Outlawed through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like illegitimate or illicit. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Outlawed meaning
- put beyond the limits of the law, forbidden, against the law.
- put beyond the limits of the law, declared an outlaw or declared a criminal.
Synonyms of Outlawed
Using Outlawed
- The main meaning on this page is: put beyond the limits of the law, forbidden, against the law. | put beyond the limits of the law, declared an outlaw or declared a criminal.
- Useful related words include: illegitimate, illicit, outlaw, unlawful.
- In the example corpus, outlawed often appears in combinations such as: the outlawed, outlawed in, outlawed kurdistan.
Context around Outlawed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 11 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Outlawed
- In this selection, "outlawed" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, court, city, initially, kurdistan, affirmative and pkk stand out and add context to how "outlawed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include from the outlawed pkk group and abortion was outlawed in 1936. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "outlawed" sits close to words such as afcon, asean and avert, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with outlawed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Local administrations have also outlawed some cars in certain city centres. (11 words)
The GB nerve agent, also known as sarin, is outlawed under international rules of warfare. (15 words)
Bankrolling it later is akin to borrowing for past operating expenses, supposedly outlawed after the 1970s fiscal crisis. (18 words)
Flaring is a process of burning off methane that is so toxic it has been outlawed in California for nearly a hundred years, but Californians send more than $5 billion a year to Iraq to continue the cancer-causing activity. (40 words)
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., who represents the district where the shooting took place, said there are still no clear answers for what happened on Oct. 1, and the devices that the shooter used have not been outlawed. (38 words)
Also Friday, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said it was declaring a cease-fire in its separatist insurgency in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, including some areas affected by the quake. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The Communist Party was initially outlawed by Ion Iliescu, but he soon revoked that decision; as a consequence, Communism is not outlawed in Romania today.
Also Friday, the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, said it was declaring a cease-fire in its separatist insurgency in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, including some areas affected by the quake.
Bankrolling it later is akin to borrowing for past operating expenses, supposedly outlawed after the 1970s fiscal crisis.
Because being a Republican, conservative, patriot or Christian will be outlawed soon after Democrats achieve one-party rule in 2024.
Days after the Supreme Court outlawed affirmative action in college admissions on June 29, 2023, activists say they will sue Harvard over its use of legacy preferences for children of alumni.
Erdogan has delayed approving the application, accusing Stockholm of sheltering “terrorists” from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) which is listed as a terror group by Ankara and its Western allies.
Essentially, the agreement outlawed the use of chemical and biological weapons during warfare, marking the first time that modern warfare was regulated by international law.
Flaring is a process of burning off methane that is so toxic it has been outlawed in California for nearly a hundred years, but Californians send more than $5 billion a year to Iraq to continue the cancer-causing activity.
IN 2020, New York City outlawed the vast majority of e-cigarette types, banning flavors that can appeal to youngsters.
In 2020, the state of Hawaii outlawed most sea wall construction, realizing that this climate mitigation effort caused a domino effect of other problems.
Kurdish militants from the outlawed PKK group announced a temporary halt in fighting to facilitate rescue work after the huge earthquake that struck southeastern Turkey and parts of Syria.
Kurdish militants from the outlawed PKK group announced a temporary halt in fighting to facilitate rescue work in eastern Türkiye and parts of Syria.
Local administrations have also outlawed some cars in certain city centres.
New York City outlawed new installations of lead service lines — the pipes that carry water from central mains to individual buildings — in 1961.
President Joe Biden last summer praised the workers along with counterparts at weapons storage bases in Oregon and Kentucky for successfully getting rid of all outlawed weapons.
Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., who represents the district where the shooting took place, said there are still no clear answers for what happened on Oct. 1, and the devices that the shooter used have not been outlawed.
Sixty-nine years ago this month, the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed school segregation in its landmark decision known as Brown v. Board of Education.
Some see it as a throwback to the Stalinist era, when abortion was outlawed in 1936, and women ending unwanted pregnancies often turned to illegal and unsafe procedures.
The GB nerve agent, also known as sarin, is outlawed under international rules of warfare.
The Supreme Court ruling had a limited impact in California, whose voters had outlawed affirmative action in state colleges and universities in 1996 and refused to reinstate it in 2020.
Common combinations with outlawed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the outlawed 36×
- outlawed in 25×
- outlawed kurdistan 23×
- outlawed the 18×
- was outlawed 15×
- been outlawed 13×
- is outlawed 13×
- be outlawed 12×
- outlawed by 12×
- that outlawed 7×