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How to use restrain in a sentence

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The ubiquitous bleats about international law always seem to restrain one party whilst leaving the other unscolded.
The main innovation was the charter that provided a parliamentary framework to restrain monarchical authority.
Most folks hang their shafts too low and you need to restrain the tug so it doesn't fly forward and backward as the animal performs maneuvers.
With all my black-belted judo fury, I had to restrain myself from physically harming those whispering about me.
The rate setters want to restrain inflation, as well as galloping house prices, consumer spending and debt levels.
It is hard to restrain yourself from gobbling them up the second they come to the table.
I don't have a nail gun but I've used one from a local shop to knock together a gate and a retaining wall that didn't restrain Holly the mad dog.
Security personnel had to struggle a bit to restrain those who wanted to surge forward and have a closer look.
Finally, he reached into his knapsack, removing a pair of handcuffs and leg shackles to restrain Nathan.
I just stood there and watched powerlessly, as T.J.'s dad violently struggled to restrain his son from running off.
Detective 1 was explaining to me how it's extremely difficult to restrain someone without hurting them.
His shoulders were shaking in an attempt to restrain himself and appear strong in front of his brother.
At first, I managed to restrain myself, but then I heard a suppressed giggle from the veranda and made the mistake of turning round.
I only hope that I am able to restrain them before these unutterable terrors escape into the world at large.
The boy paid no attention to the boy in the glass case, and continued to restrain the girl with cords and chains of some sort.
His much more youthful servants had to wrestle him to the ground to restrain him.
The British mission with the Partisans proved powerless to restrain them and a British officer sent in to mediate was killed in an air raid.
We must concentrate on creating conditions to restrain militarism and military adventurism in the world.
He assaulted nurses who tried to calm and restrain him and left other workers cowering as he ranted at them.
Fortunately, I managed to restrain myself and not disgrace myself too much.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Has this fearful pestilence no power to restrain the appetites and passions of the people?
I was unable to restrain a shudder at the thought of this revolting contest.
It was his professed object to restrain Russia, and to circumscribe her limits.
Gabriel strove to restrain himself from breaking out into brutal language about the sottish Malins and his pound.
The eye cannot follow his movements, unless you rein him in and restrain his impetuosity.
He was very strict in his superintendence of the public morals, and passed a sumptuary law to restrain extravagance.
The ninety-five must be banded together to restrain and suppress the vicious five.
When I saw that angelical creature in tears for the sake of her brother, I could restrain myself no longer.
Come, O thou of golden face, brandishing your thyrsus along Olympus, and restrain the insolence of the blood-thirsty man.
Emily, on her part, was disposed to yield an unreluctant obedience, and therefore it was not difficult to restrain her.
Yet the effort she made, and with success, to restrain the show of her anger, was far from slight.
Mary made no effort to restrain the smile caused by the costume of Mr. Griggs.
I would restrain the landlords from any power or control in these crown land districts.
So that, as photogen grew older, Fargu began to tremble, for he found it steadily growing harder to restrain him.
McGregor was so irritated by what he took to be the wordiness of the man that he could not restrain himself.
Here, however, we were met by a figure, at the sight of which we found it almost impossible to restrain our risibility.
I could not restrain my laughter when I first scanned these curs in their fanciful coats.
The others had to restrain the lieutenant to keep him from assaulting the socialist.
She got up and went back to the secretaire, as if trying to restrain herself.
These were silent or even made some efforts to restrain the ribaldry of their men.
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