Words similar to restrain

Example sentences for: restrain

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

Since higher interest rates take months to restrain economic expansion, postponing a hike is like waiting "to brake a runaway car until it is a few feet from the cliff's edge."
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.
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.
Love your mag, but can you do something to restrain the egomania of your diarists?
The United States, which provides Seoul the military assistance it needs for strategic deterrence against North Korea, has been pressing North Korea to restrain its missile program.