Example Sentences

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“My first thought was, my grandson Ezra would love this. Second thought was: Moratoriums don’t mean much when it comes down to money,” one woman wrote on Twitter.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2020

The Moratoriums were explicitly antiwar; the demonstrations of 2020, under the rubric Black Lives Matter, protest police brutality against African Americans.

From Washington Post • Jun. 11, 2020

Moratoriums on social events have been imposed on at least five other college campuses, either by the administrations or by students themselves, according to UI.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 25, 2017

Moratoriums on horseshoe crab fishing in New Jersey have driven up their price, from about one dollar per crab five years ago to about five today.

From New York Times • Jul. 4, 2013

Moratoriums were falling everywhere as thick as leaves in Vallombrosa.

From Fighting For Peace by Van Dyke, Henry