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Example sentences for: restraining

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

But restraining himself, he seems too restrained.
A University of California, Irvine, study released Wednesday found an interactive computer system effectively helps people fill out paperwork for restraining orders, eviction defense, small-claims cases and requests for filing-fee waivers.
Ellen Barkin will, one day soon (if there's a God in heaven, and Revlon's stock continues to plummet as a feckless addlepated heir drives a once-thriving company into the ground with his big bald head) be changing her name to Ellen Cohen, if I can just get the judge to lift that restraining order.
It's hard not to get choked up when you read Busey's promise to his estranged wife, "I'll be there when the restraining order has expired."
I've been hit with a restraining order prohibiting me from finishing the sentence."