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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:

In southern rural areas, such strictures have been accepted, especially as the Taliban has provided a stable environment for the cultivation of poppies.
Tom Wolfe's second novel obeys all the strictures set down in Tom Wolfe's essays.
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.
Romantic yearnings for an imaginary past were, to him, anathema, and conservatives of many kinds were early subject to his critical strictures: The rights of man [the conservative] has gradually grown used, after long years of disquietude, to hear talked of, without apprehension of catalepsy; but you must wait for his son, or for his son's son, if you would get a candid hearing for the rights of woman.
Needless to say, the Federalist essays do not meet the simple strictures of the Plain Language Initiative.