lawbreakers

Example Sentences

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A day later, Tehran’s prosecutor called the claim “nonsense” and said the country would act firmly and swiftly against lawbreakers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 20, 2026

Noting that the unrest was confined to a small section of downtown, Hochman promised to hold the lawbreakers accountable and disputed that Los Angeles was “under siege.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 9, 2025

As Gov. Newsom said, if there are lawbreakers, let them be prosecuted.

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2025

Following years of overexploitation in the Amazon rainforest -- due mainly to illegal logging -- the government began to take tough countermeasures, introducing satellite surveillance and deploying the military to tackle lawbreakers.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2023

The Cardinal would, they thought, deal with them as rulers have dealt with serf-mastering lawbreakers from those days to these—invent some quibble and screen them with it.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Johnson, Rossiter