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"Restrained" in a Sentence (13 examples)
We are constrained to and restrained from an action.
The speaker was restrained in his attitude.
We restrained the boy from breaking the window.
I wanted a hamburger, but I restrained myself.
I barely restrained the impulse to strike him.
We ate with chopsticks in restrained silence.
She restrained tears with difficulty.
Advocates of capitalism are very apt to appeal to the sacred principles of liberty, which are embodied in one maxim: The fortunate must not be restrained in the exercise of tyranny over the unfortunate.
In adolescence, I hated life and was continually on the verge of suicide, from which, however, I was restrained by the desire to know more mathematics.
Tom restrained himself.
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He greeted her for the first time in three years with a restrained embrace.
Ha? fie, these filthy vices. It were as good To pardon him, that hath from nature stolne a man already made, as to remit Their sawcie sweetnes, that do coyne heauens Image In stamps that are forbid: 'tis all as easie, Falsely to take away a life true made, As to put mettle in restrained meanes To make a false one.
He was restrained by the straight jacket.
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