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Example sentences for "restraint"

Lexicographically close words:
restrained; restrainer; restraineth; restraining; restrains; restraints; restreined; restrict; restricted; restricting
  1. Jim could endure neither bossing nor being bossed; restraint of any sort irked him.

  2. As soon as they were convinced of their love, every restraint became an illegal restraint, illegal because they felt that only the law of love had jurisdiction over them.

  3. But Congressional activity as to any combinations in restraint of trade was unabated.

  4. It called upon the President for such information as the Interstate Commerce Commission might have as to a combination in restraint of trade between the Pennsylvania Railroad and certain lines allied with it.

  5. Perhaps, in her heart of hearts, she wondered if every young man who might be in love with a girl imposed such rigid restraint on himself as Rex Carshaw when he was in her company.

  6. Those of our sons who are given to pleasure and pay little heed to rebuke, we must endeavour to marry, for marriage is the surest restraint upon youth.

  7. Look at their self-restraint and intelligence, their fidelity and uprightness, and that bravery courage and magnanimity so conspicuous in many!

  8. His impassivity afflicted her at times, so that she played pranks on him, vainly endeavouring to upset his restraint and his dignity; but her pranks were hardly heeded.

  9. Surface of a glacier whose upper layers spread with slight restraint from retaining walls.

  10. Reaching at last the front of the upland area, the glaciers may now be so well nourished at their heads that they push out upon the flatter foreland and without restraint from retaining walls spread broadly upon it (Fig.

  11. What tyranny is this, both my hart to thrall, And eke my toung with proud restraint to tie, That neither I may speake nor thinke at all, But like a stupid stock in silence die!

  12. They appreciate the force of her point that artificial conditions of restraint prevent teachers from getting true knowledge of the material with which they are dealing, so that instruction is limited to repetition of traditional processes.

  13. He knew the rightful prince, and hated him on account of his better claim to the throne, while he despised his reserve and modesty, which he set down to weakness, knowing nothing of the qualities of self-restraint and reserved force.

  14. Sylvia respected him as her mother's friend, and treated him tolerably well as long as he preserved his usual self-restraint of demeanour, but hardly ever thought of him when he was absent.

  15. He was not often carried away by delusions of his own creating; to-night he thought he had good ground for believing that by patient self-restraint he might win Sylvia's love.

  16. This possibility, indeed, he seems to have discovered, as in more than one of his later poems he sorrowfully counsels something of reserve and self-restraint as the best policy of the lover.

  17. As it is, his reign must be honourably remembered for what he accomplished in this direction, and for the wise laws which he made for the restraint of feudal violence.

  18. It was evident that he was speaking with restraint when it came to Peter Brent, perhaps glossing over what the man had done.

  19. But there was the same restraint in his look that had been shown in the afternoon.

  20. They finished them in a twinkling, and then wished for more; but it is only justice to their good-breeding and self-restraint to add that they did not ask for more!

  21. This was not calculated to soothe an angry man, but Thorward reflected that the epithet was figurative, and bore a peculiar signification when uttered by a woman; he therefore continued his self-restraint and waited for more.

  22. They would acknowledge no law nor restraint and seem to have had force majeure on their side.

  23. I ought to haul off and slap a little self-restraint into her.

  24. Maybe one of the others can be talked into restraint into her.

  25. If a woman has no inclination to do what is wrong being secured from it is no restraint to her.

  26. What proportion would that restraint upon us bear to the private happiness of the nation?

  27. A man without some degree of restraint is insufferable; but we are all less restrained than women.

  28. But when restraint is unnecessary, and so close as to gall those who are subject to it, the people may and ought to remonstrate; and, if relief is not granted, to resist.

  29. We soon got into conversation; for it was very remarkable of Johnson, that the presence of a stranger had no restraint upon his talk.

  30. If Mr. Johnson should forbid me to drink tea, I would comply, as I should feel the restraint only twice a day; but little variations in narrative must happen a thousand times a day, if one is not perpetually watching.

  31. He had accustomed himself to shew Mrs. Williams such a degree of humane attention, as frequently imposed some restraint upon him; and I knew that if she should be obstinate, he would not stir.

  32. But the gratitude of the beautiful companion has always the same restraint in its acknowledgment of kindness; the smile of the beautiful companion has always the same underlying sadness when it responds to Lady Janet's hearty laugh.

  33. But how far the mischief has gone, and whether her case is, or is not, sufficiently grave to render actual restraint necessary, he cannot positively say, in our present state of ignorance as to facts.

  34. Whereas the author of these memoirs clearly writes under the coercion and restraint of a notorious reality, that would not suffer him to ignore or to modify the leading facts.

  35. But, of late, the battery has been pointed against the Oxford discipline in its moral aspects, as fitted for the government and restraint of young men, or even as at all contemplating any such control.

  36. The restraint laid upon her was becoming more than she could bear, and she rebelled against it.

  37. They had also been chums in Harvard, where both had pulled through rather creditably, and where Jack had acted as a restraint upon Howard, who was fonder of larks than of study.

  38. Mandy Ann was very bright, and as she knew no restraint in her Florida home, when alone with her old Miss and young Miss, she was apt to be rather familiar for a negro slave, and a little inclined to humor.

  39. Several of them avoid this restraint by passing for Americans; but the detection of this deception is most severely punished.

  40. Young men must learn that self-restraint is the true power.

  41. Thou, God, seest me"--has been used as a restraint from evil more than as a stimulus to good.

  42. Solar and the Lunar) in respect of blood, behaviour, self-restraint and the other attributes.

  43. Whither the Vedas and truth and self-restraint and purity and righteousness and modesty and prosperity and wisdom and forgiveness are always to be met with, thither I myself always remain.

  44. In the third type of family, the boy, with growing years, passes out of the control of the mother, and is resentful of any restraint exerted by a woman.

  45. The testimony of the home is the same; parents complain of the growing independence of their children, and to a large extent have ceased to attempt to exert any restraint over the conduct of their sons.

  46. Rhodes, held them in restraint in the Mediterranean.

  47. It allows polygamy and pelts no restraint upon divorce, and thus destroys the sanctity of the family life.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "restraint" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abnegation; absolutism; abstinence; aplomb; arrest; assurance; balance; block; blockade; bond; bondage; brake; bridle; calm; calmness; captivity; censorship; chain; chastity; check; circumscription; clarity; closure; coldness; collar; comeliness; composure; confidence; confinement; conservatism; constraint; constriction; continence; control; cool; cramp; cuff; curb; curtailment; deceleration; delay; denial; detachment; detention; dignity; directness; discipline; discretion; discrimination; dispassion; distance; distinction; domination; duress; ease; economy; embargo; enforcement; equanimity; equilibrium; evenness; felicity; fetter; feudalism; finish; fixation; flow; fluency; forbearance; frugality; gag; gentleness; grace; grip; halter; hamper; hampering; handcuff; handicap; hindrance; holdup; hurdle; impartiality; impediment; independence; inevitability; inhibition; injunction; interdict; interference; interruption; introversion; iron; judiciousness; lead; leash; let; limit; lockup; lucidity; manacle; measure; mildness; moderation; modesty; monopoly; muzzle; naturalness; neatness; necessity; neutrality; obligation; obstruction; occlusion; opposition; pacifism; patience; peonage; perspicuity; philosophy; pillory; plainness; poise; possession; prevention; prohibition; propriety; protection; prudence; purity; rationing; refinement; rein; reins; renunciation; repose; repression; reserve; resistance; restraint; restriction; retardation; reticence; retirement; retrenchment; serenity; serfdom; servility; servitude; setback; shackle; simplicity; slavery; sobriety; squeeze; stability; stint; stocks; stranglehold; stricture; subjugation; suppression; taboo; taste; temperance; tether; thrall; trammel; tranquillity; tyranny; understatement; vassalage; villenage; will; withdrawal; yoke