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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:

Robert Taft tried to keep the United States out of World War II in the late 1930s and then sought to restrain America's overseas commitments in the early Cold War years.
I literally had to restrain myself from laughing.
The WSJ quotes an expert on Islamic movements saying that Muslims don't restrain themselves this way.
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.
But evidently he's too dumb and stubborn to restrain himself.