covenant

Example Sentences

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That’s one of the sharpest quarterly increases ever recorded for a protective covenant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

County Superior Court Judge Terry Bork directed the company to shut down the scrap yard for good and sign a land covenant that would prohibit future recycling on the site.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

When these sentences are handed down, they form a covenant between the State and the victims, and their family and their friends.

From Slate • Feb. 19, 2025

To them, I say this: When we go to a movie theater, we’re making a covenant with the establishment that we are forcing ourselves to follow.

From Salon • Jan. 1, 2025

It’s as though we were all sworn to the same secret covenant, so secret we don’t even know what we belong to.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan