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'prohibition' in a sentence

Learn how to use 'prohibition' with 2 example sentences.


prohibition noun

: a law forbidding the sale of alcoholic beverages

: a decree that prohibits something

: the period from 1920 to 1933 when the sale of alcoholic beverages was prohibited in the United States by a constitutional amendment

: refusal to approve or assent to

: the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)


  • Prohibition is hereby officially prohibited.
  • The first prohibition of slavery was in the mid-nineteenth century.
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