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Example sentences for "inhibited"

Lexicographically close words:
inheriting; inheritor; inheritors; inherits; inhibit; inhibiting; inhibition; inhibitions; inhibitive; inhibitory
  1. Tyndall tested the growth of organisms in flasks exposed to air and light on the Alps, and found that sunlight inhibited the growth temporarily.

  2. That is to say, on the whole the sensory faculty is of course dimmed and inhibited by sleep; but there are nevertheless indications of a power subsisting as vividly as ever, or with even added acuteness.

  3. Many words and acts of violence fall under the same category, in cases where the impulse to swear or to strike has acquired the unreasoning automatic promptness of a tic, and yet may be at once inhibited by suggestion.

  4. In the first place, it seems clear that when pain is inhibited in any but the most simple cases, a certain group of changes is produced whose nexus is psychological rather than physiological.

  5. The suggestion, that is to say, that the stinging vapour is inert has inhibited the vaso-motor reflexes which would ordinarily follow, and which no ordinary effort of will could restrain.

  6. It is for this reason, again, that both men and women whose normal energies are inhibited sometimes find the symbols of sexual gratification in the caresses of children.

  7. No matter what feelings from the otherwise inhibited Unc.

  8. Dream of a young man inhibited by a father complex.

  9. The Government inhibited the miracles, but faith in miracles scorns obedience to human laws.

  10. He sternly inhibited Roger of Worcester, who had entreated permission to communicate with his brethren.

  11. But it is inhibited from so doing by the placenta.

  12. Or its own activity will be depressed or completely inhibited by it.

  13. Chlorlyptus inhibited the growth of typhoid bacillus when added to the bouillon in the proportions of 1:10.

  14. In short, by much repetition, a legend had grown up around the dachshunds, a legend of fierceness inhibited only by circumstances, of pathetic deprivation of the sports of their native land.

  15. Ordinarily these dogs, who were also wise beasts, passed by the jackrabbit in his abundance with only inhibited longing.

  16. Shading is as easily accomplished as in music and the development of this art need not be inhibited by a lack of mechanical devices and light-sources.

  17. White or yellow phosphorus is a deadly poison; therefore the progress of the phosphorus match was inhibited until the discovery of the relatively harmless form known as red phosphorus.

  18. Somehow this fact inhibited Carley's sense of repulsion at their rude and uncouth appearance.

  19. But silence inhibited her, and the moment passed.

  20. How at critical moments he always said the thing that hurt her or inhibited her!

  21. They become inhibited and diverted to other aims and fields, they unite with each other, change their objects and in part turn against one's own person.

  22. In other fields the pressure of civilization shows no pathological results but manifests itself in distorted characters and in the constant readiness of the inhibited impulses to enforce their gratification at any fitting opportunity.

  23. You will be inhibited in every diocese; you will have the millstone of an unpaid debt round your neck; you are a married man.

  24. No bishop would license me; I should be inhibited in every diocese--in other words I should starve.

  25. The duties levied under former acts were made perpetual, but the council were inhibited from imposing a tax, except for local purposes.

  26. It inhibited all vessels of war from molesting the Investigator, and gave right of entry to all ports subject to France, for refitting or refreshment, on condition that nothing were done hostile to that power.

  27. Dreading that it might increase my excitement, the Chilleno doctors had inhibited the visits of my child.

  28. At home any effort engaging his attention inhibited the tic, nor was there any sign of it in the course of our interrogation and examination of him.

  29. The truth is, once a tic is established, it has all the appearance of an involuntary movement, but that nevertheless its manifestations may be either modified or inhibited by an effort of the will is patent from clinical observation.

  30. Under the influence of emotion the movements were increased, but they could not be inhibited by an effort of attention.

  31. Pressure on the epigastrium inhibited the abdominal movement, but was accompanied by immediate renewal of the neighing, whereas with the relief of the pressure the sequence of events was inverted.

  32. He frequently inhibited such impulses and chose correctly, but at other times he reacted quickly and made mistakes.

  33. Enzyme reactions inhibited by the formation of reaction products again proceed if these are removed or diluted.

  34. In this respect the luciferases are very different from many types of oxidizing enzymes which are inhibited by exceedingly weak concentrations of cyanide.

  35. We mean that individuality, the whole complex of personal desires, tastes and preferences, is inhibited from expressing itself, from registering itself.

  36. But he was inhibited from publishing it and this only poured oil upon the passion that possessed him.

  37. An inhibited impulse to react in a more or less definite way to a stimulus is, then, the adequate condition of the emergence in consciousness of the sense of objectivity.

  38. And since an inhibited impulse usually expresses itself by contraries, her attitude was of studied and aloof politeness.

  39. Not even the coughing and sneezing usual to a gathering of people paying attention was heard, for the intense interest inhibited these nervous symptoms.

  40. It is the limited, inhibited conception of sex that vitiates so much of the thought and ideation of the Eugenists.

  41. Like most of our social idealists, statesmen, politicians and economists, some of the Eugenists suffer intellectually from a restricted and inhibited understanding of the function of sex.

  42. Undue dorsal flexion is prevented by the deep flexor tendon (perforans) and volar flexion is inhibited by the extensor of the digit (extensor pedis).

  43. I'm a queer inhibited sort of thing, dear.

  44. That which is permissible here is inhibited yonder, and what is permissible yonder is inhibited here.

  45. It was an enchanted upland, inhibited to the herd.

  46. It was to the effect that if he were inhibited from private speech with Mrs. Lyeth, there was no reason in the world why he should not write.


  47. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhibited" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrested; chary; cold; constrained; continent; frigid; guarded; inhibited; passionless; restrained; retarded; silent; sober; unresponsive