Example sentences for: self-restraint

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

  • Technology vs. self-restraint: Pro-choicers count on technology to prevent unwanted consequences of sex.

  • I said that I believe the solutions range from tough measures to get guns away from kids and criminals, to more discipline and values in our schools, to more self-restraint in the use of gratuitous violence in the entertainment media, to more parental involvement in the lives of our children--which of course means we need to give working parents more help in balancing work and family.

  • With enormous self-restraint, I'll spare you my own analysis of the EDF's analysis of me.

  • You don't have to be Bob Dole or Dan Quayle to believe that virtues such as self-restraint and discipline are getting harder to sell, and ever more socially desirable.

  • Invoking decorous values like self-restraint, decency, respect, personal and parental responsibility, and compassion has become an American pastime.


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