impose
Example Sentences
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The measure would impose a new half-cent sales tax countywide, with the proceeds going toward local hospitals and clinics hit by federal funding cuts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 10, 2026
According to the Sentencing Council, an absolute discharge means that "the court has decided not to impose a punishment because the experience of going to court has been punishment enough".
From BBC • Jun. 9, 2026
The remedy we’re talking about that the court could impose is one that Blanche is saying shouldn’t exist.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
The facilities impose rules that are sometimes hard to accept, such as a ban on visitors.
From Barron's • Jun. 7, 2026
I understood that the world was nothing: a mechanical chaos of casual, brute enmity on which' we stupidly impose our hopes and fears.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
Vocabulary lists containing impose
The Declaration of Independence
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"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin
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