How to Use law-abiding in a Sentence

law-abiding

adjective
  • Crooked Joe has a 40-year record of trying to rip firearms out of the hands of law-abiding citizens.
    — Adriana Gomez, The Christian Science Monitor, 18 May 2024
  • The firm has a sterling reputation thanks to word-of-mouth among their law-abiding clients.
    — Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 2 May 2024
  • And the right of law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution of the United States.
    — CBS News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • And any law-abiding American will file disclosures on the trusts every year to the IRS.
    — Alicia Adamczyk, Fortune, 21 Oct. 2024
  • If a law-abiding citizen can face this for simply coming home, then no one is safe.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The bill defines a law-abiding citizen as anyone not barred from owning a gun.
    — Katie Bernard, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Superman, positive, law-abiding, and shaped by the loving Kents, belongs to the day.
    — Josh Weiss, Forbes, 14 Feb. 2024
  • The foreign freeloaders were totally law-abiding, here to do the jobs Americans wouldn’t do.
    — Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
  • In the past, gun rights advocates had argued that a responsible and law-abiding person has a right to have a gun for self-defense, and the Supreme Court had agreed.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • Critics accused them of politicizing his death to thwart their rights as law-abiding gun owners.
    — Terry Spencer, Fortune, 14 Feb. 2024
  • As the famed columnist Molly Ivins once observed, there is a telling irony in the speed with which law-abiding gun owners are inclined to threaten their critics.
    — TIME, 31 Jan. 2024
  • In the past, most of the 2nd Amendment cases to come before the Supreme Court have featured gun owners who were described as law-abiding and responsible.
    — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2024
  • His attorney, Clyde Bennett II, said what happened was the exception in a law-abiding life.
    — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Joe Biden’s critics often accuse him of waging a war on law-abiding Americans’ right to bear arms.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 18 Sep. 2023
  • Close to a million law-abiding companies have already complied with the law, and this ruling should be stayed and overturned on appeal.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Close to a million law-abiding companies have already complied with the law, and this ruling should be stayed and overturned on appeal.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • In this case, Shanks was put on probation for a year and must remain law-abiding and not commit the same or similar offenses.
    — Alex Malm, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • But the – the folks who are otherwise law-abiding, tax-paying and – and enriching communities, there's got to be a better way.
    — / Cbs News, CBS News, 15 June 2025
  • In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 20 June 2024
  • In the series, the corrupt outnumber the good as criminals run rampant and law-abiding citizens live in a constant state of fear in Gotham City.
    — Denise Petski, Deadline, 26 June 2024
  • For too long, our state representatives have turned a blind eye to the voices of victims and law-abiding citizens.
    — Carl Demaio, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Robinson complained that law-abiding people were being made to suffer because of the actions of one person.
    — Peter Slevin, The New Yorker, 25 Sep. 2024
  • The victims of another scam were law-abiding Asian Americans.
    — Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The suit describes the condition as unique to Meza and the Fragas: No other parolee in the state was prohibited from contact with a law-abiding citizen who was not a victim of the parolee.
    — Tim Stelloh, NBC News, 7 June 2023
  • These Trump actions provide all the wrong incentives—and law-abiding citizens have much more to fear from them than criminals.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 9 May 2025
  • Since the percentage of such migrants is small, ICE and local officials will soon be dragging up and out those who are law-abiding, along with their families.
    — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 1 Feb. 2025
  • More curious was the way a variety of law-abiding Americans developed an interest in the same line of thought.
    — Alex Traub, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
  • There is no big wall around us, cordoning off a law-abiding chunk of the universe from the anarchic and inexplicable beyond.
    — George Musser, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
  • Anything less is a disservice to every law-abiding citizen and victim of the crimes these policies enable.
    — John Fabbricatore, Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • What seems to be happening, though, is ICE is picking up law-abiding migrants who have families, have fled the dangers of their country of origin and are leading productive lives.
    — Chicago Tribune, 18 June 2025

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