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

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

From Salon • Jun. 12, 2025

We can’t put those lawbreakers back behind bars.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 29, 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

We arrest some of the lawbreakers and take them down to Ruby to the courts, and have them fined or imprisoned.

From Young Alaskans in the Far North by Hough, Emerson