How to Use fall/run afoul of in a Sentence

fall/run afoul of

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  • Clubs that do run afoul of the law won’t get citations right away.
    — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Now the 24-year-old singer seems to have run afoul of a rival drug gang.
    — Wire Services, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Since then, the wolves have roamed and run afoul of ranchers whose livestock has been killed.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 31 July 2024
  • Maddox does not make vague threats toward people who run afoul of him.
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2025
  • Some of these options might run afoul of the special budget process rules.
    — Margot Sanger-Katz, New York Times, 26 Feb. 2025
  • Some locations have run afoul of rules about hours, work permits and rest breaks in the past.
    — Alexandria Burris, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
  • Moreno stands in a long line of Chicago alderman who have run afoul of the law.
    — Megan Crepeau, chicagotribune.com, 16 July 2021
  • Do those donations fall afoul of Times guidelines in rule or in spirit?
    — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 July 2024
  • The onlookers just watched the raptor try to pick off a duckling and run afoul of the mother duck.
    — Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2024
  • The council says policies such as those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
    — USA TODAY, 16 Feb. 2024
  • And the council says policies like those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The plaintiffs say Penn has run afoul of the Civil Rights Act.
    — Tobi Raji, Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2023
  • Trying to claim income that wasn’t actually a tip as a tip would no doubt run afoul of the tax code anyway.
    — Joe Moglia, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • But those who seek to run afoul of Medicare/Medicaid do so at their own peril.
    — Jeff Gorke, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • The unions assert these limits on employees’ speech run afoul of state and federal laws.
    — William Melhado, Sacramento Bee, 26 Feb. 2025
  • City data shows that Fly has allegedly run afoul of such requirements too.
    — Jesse Coburn, Curbed, 31 Jan. 2025
  • This is not the first time Lillienfeld has run afoul of department policies.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 27 Nov. 2024
  • Musk could fall afoul of federal laws That doesn’t mean Musk is entirely in the clear.
    — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2024
  • Unfortunately, even the most diligent of hikers can run afoul of this threat.
    — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 10 May 2023
  • Multiple people freed by the pardons have run afoul of the law after being released.
    — James Powel, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2025
  • Rosen insisted that doing so would run afoul of the law and the Constitution.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • According to the report, Guy said this could run afoul of state law given the type of precinct paper that was approved.
    — Daniel Chaitin, Washington Examiner, 22 Mar. 2021
  • Biden is a pro-labor president, while Tesla is non-union and has run afoul of federal labor laws.
    — Mackenzie Sigalos,rebecca Picciotto, CNBC, 8 Aug. 2024
  • Tuesday's lawsuit is not the first time Visa has run afoul of the Justice Department.
    — Scott Horsley, NPR, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Some whistleblower lawyers are encouraging more reporting of any agreement that might fall afoul of the spirit of the law.
    — Mengqi Sun, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Viking's Orion is the second cruise ship to fall afoul of New Zealand officials in the past month.
    — CNN, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The protest, originally scheduled to take place in Harvard Yard but moved so as not to run afoul of the new rules, seemed low-key.
    — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • The new laws have been closely-watched by the music industry, over concerns that aspects of concerts could run afoul of broad new restrictions.
    — Bill Donahue, Billboard, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Lake is only the latest Republican to fall afoul of Petty and his estate.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 18 Nov. 2022
  • The goal is to build AI tools to help artists create new music that doesn't run afoul of copyright, name and likeness rights, the companies said.
    — Tim Baysinger, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024

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