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Example sentences for: restrain

How can you use “restrain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

WidgetBuster, S.A . While you may not be able to restrain your brother-in-law's trade, you can hope that his market share will become so large as to draw the attention of the owners of the Ghostbusters trademark and that their battery of high-priced studio lawyers might be able to get the injunction that your cousin could not.
Better to let them restrain each other through inefficiency, caught in a morass of checks and balances, our freedom guarded not by fierce virtue but, rather, by simple unfeasibility.
The world food supply had fallen because of bad weather in Russia and El Niño in the Pacific, food prices were rising beyond our control, and with food prices rising it was hard to restrain wages.
His remarks are typically shrouded and hedged, and though it is of course the job of the Fed to restrain inflation and promote economic growth, which requires him to make at least educated guesses about the future, Greenspan generally does seem well aware of the limits of his own knowledge.
But evidently he's too dumb and stubborn to restrain himself.