LAWFUL in a Sentence

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1. The king made laws and imposed them by force.
2. There must be one set of laws for the whole of the country.
3. but now my lawful spouse, Monsieur Kukshin's residing there.
4. The company says it is in full compliance with US labor laws.
5. The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace.

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 Meanings and Examples of LAWFUL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lawful
 a.  according to custom or rule or natural law
 a.  conformable to or allowed by law
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  And therefore it is lawful for me to treat him as one who has put himself into a state of war with me, i.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
2  And this is that, and that only, which did, or could give beginning to any lawful government in the world.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  And so by this their own principle, either all men, however born, are free, or else there is but one lawful prince, one lawful government in the world.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  But supposing victory favours the right side, let us consider a conqueror in a lawful war, and see what power he gets, and over whom.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
5  Barclay therefore, in another place, more coherently to himself, denies it to be lawful to resist a king in any case.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  The catching business, we beg to remind them, is rising to the dignity of a lawful and patriotic profession.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  When despairing Hungarian fugitives make their way, against all the search-warrants and authorities of their lawful government, to America, press and political cabinet ring with applause and welcome.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
8  And now to my boon," said the King, "which I ask not with one jot the less confidence, that thou hast refused to acknowledge my lawful sovereignty.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
9  He is their lawful property; he fairly belongs to them.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
10  but now my lawful spouse, Monsieur Kukshin's residing there.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  Order is not yet restored and not a single merchant is carrying on trade in a lawful manner.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
12  He had on the Shoes; for as yet no lawful owner had appeared to claim them; and besides it was so very dirty out-of-doors, they were just the thing for him, he thought.
Andersen's Fairy Tales By Hans Christian Andersen
Context  Highlight   In THE SHOES OF FORTUNE
13  I'm a slave to that woman, Governor, just because I'm not her lawful husband.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
14  The laws say that men may not write unless the Council of Vocations bid them so.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
15  What punishment awaits us if it be discovered we know not, for no such crime has come in the memory of men and there are no laws to provide for it.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Pubic officers are the servats and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
17  There must be one set of laws for the whole of the country.
18  The Board has banned the film on the grounds that it contravenes criminal libel laws.
19  Such laws could protect the consumer from harmful or dangerous remedies.
20  Their movements have been severely circumscribed since the laws came into effect.
21  Governments of many countries have established laws to protect the air, forests and sea resources and to stop environmental pollution.
22  The company employed lawyers to find loopholes in environmental protection laws.
23  The courts struck down local segregation laws because they violated the federal constitution.
24  It also alleges violations of state and federal antitrust laws and public nuisance laws.
25  The king made laws and imposed them by force.
26  The goal of the experiment was to familiarize the people with the new laws.
27  Match officials should not tolerate such behaviour but instead enforce the laws of the game.
28  The new laws will be just as oppressive as those they replace.
29  The company says it is in full compliance with US labor laws.
30  Many lords, many laws; much law, little justice.