'prohibition' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'prohibition' with 2 example sentences.
- prohibition noun
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: 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.