[
UK
/kˈɜːfjuː/
]
[ US /ˈkɝfju/ ]
[ US /ˈkɝfju/ ]
NOUN
- an order that after a specific time certain activities (as being outside on the streets) are prohibited
- the time that the curfew signal is sounded
- a signal (usually a bell) announcing the start of curfew restrictions
How To Use curfew In A Sentence
- The neighbours, he recalls, allowed him to play until a daily curfew of 10 pm.
- The adult members of society are under curfew and the elderly under house arrest: feral youth has taken over.
- If implemented, Straw's curfew will allow adults to evade taking responsibility for the welfare of future generations.
- They could have sent Smith to prison but decided on a curfew and community service.
- He said a night-time curfew for known troublemakers might be the only way to make the area safe.
- The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.
- Iraqi state television said the deputy governor had ordered an indefinite curfew in the province from 1900 in response to the killings.
- The military government clamped a curfew onto the capital
- Why didn't you give me the third degree whenever I broke curfew?
- Business owners are also being allowed back into New Orleans' uptown district, French Quarter and central business district, though curfews apply and travel between zip codes is prohibited.