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Example sentences for: strictures

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

Tom Wolfe's second novel obeys all the strictures set down in Tom Wolfe's essays.
When McDonald took over, many of the men rebelled against the program's strictures, especially the random drug testing.
They don't hanker for the old family order or want to put women back in ancient strictures, but neither do they endorse the left's "anything goes" morality.
The book is, despite these strictures, worth reading, and judicious readers will probably separate the genuine from the dubious.
Needless to say, the Federalist essays do not meet the simple strictures of the Plain Language Initiative.