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"Rein" in a Sentence (20 examples)
Being a teacher, you must learn to keep a tight rein on your emotions.
She kept a tight rein on the purse strings.
But, fearing this, the Sire omnipotent / hath buried them in caverns dark and deep, / and o'er them piled huge mountains in a heap, / and set withal a monarch, there to reign, / by compact taught at his command to keep / strict watch, and tighten or relax the rein.
So sank the furious wave, / when through the clear sky looking o'er the main, / the sea-king lashed his steeds and slacked the favouring rein.
There, reft of arms, poor Troilus, rash to dare / Achilles, by his horses dragged amain, / hangs from his empty chariot. Neck and hair / trail on the ground; his hand still grasps the rein; / the spear inverted scores the dusty plain.
"'Tis war thou bringest us," Anchises cries, / strange land! For war the mettled steed they train, / and war these threaten. Yet in time again / these beasts are wont in harness to obey, / and bear the yoke, as guided by the rein. / Peace yet is hopeful."
The children were given free rein in the chocolate factory.
Yanni kept a tight rein on his assets.
Yanni gave his daughter a free rein.
"Rein it in."
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The government is attempting to keep a rein on rising prices.
Let their eyes rove without rein.
He mounts and reins his horse.
Being once chafed, he cannot / Be reined again to temperance.
After an interval that he judged to have lasted twenty minutes, the bed began to shake with poorly reined sobs.
She worked each horse at a walk, trot, and then a canter. The horses reined well and executed stops quickly.
a man subject to these like imaginations[…]hath often the stone imaginarily, before he have it in his reines[…].
He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
My reins rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts.
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