Examples of 'curtail' in a sentence
Meaning of "curtail"
Curtail (verb): Refers to the act of reducing or restricting something, typically to limit its extent or duration
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- To cut short the tail of an animal
- To shorten or abridge the duration of something; to truncate.
- To limit or restrict, keep in check.
- A scroll termination, as of a step, etc.
How to use "curtail" in a sentence
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Special measures to curtail discrimination against girls.
Curtail lending activity because of a lack of funding.
I also want to curtail your public appearances.
You are on a colossal ego trip we must curtail.
This may curtail moves towards deregulation.
A small side step could curtail it completely.
Kindly curtail your vulgarity in our presence.
Citizens are fighting moves to curtail our freedom.
The effort to curtail popular discontent continues.
Drug use is even more difficult to curtail.
We are trying to curtail rape for god sakes.
And curtail all appearances using that persona.
The sanctions also curtail employment growth.
Curtail pork expenditures from now on.
Or in any way curtail his atrocious behavior.
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Curtail disruptions caused by human activities.
I must therefore curtail our transactions forthwith.
Curtail imports to boost local manufacturing.
Used as an excuse to curtail rights or start a war.
To curtail the marketing and consumption of tobacco products.
Bad weather was to curtail the street party.
Curtail outings that invite comparisons.
They do not curtail any of your rights.
I am to do whatever is necessary to curtail this problem.
We can not curtail fundamental rights of people.
Want something seriously done to curtail access to firearms.
So please curtail the number of points only to three.
Communist government moves to curtail civil liberties.
Forced to curtail or cease its activities.
And as such they are going to curtail their spending.
Members will curtail their remarks as much as possible.
I would not want to curtail your fun.
To curtail it and as a result contain the damage it incurs.
The idea is to curtail the use of plastic.
Volatile security situation in missions may curtail visits.
This becomes curtail when you are alone.
Tell me about the behavior you wanna curtail.
Publishers curtail number of new books.
There are some barriers that curtail this ability.
We had to curtail our own ambitions.
Decks must be evacuated and life support curtail.
We had planned to curtail the number of full freighters.
Tell me about the behavior you want to curtail.
No measure shall be taken to curtail or impede the investigation.
And then they would they would curtail.
This is expected to curtail area disparities.
It will not curtail acquisitions that are acceptable to a majority of shareholders.
Improve privacy laws and curtail government surveillance.
And curtail all appearances using that name or persona.
Democracies should not curtail freedom in order to defend it.
