How to Use constrain in a Sentence

constrain

verb

• Until now, the mindset was to focus on how to constrain in-house wages and pay less to consultants and third-party service providers.
  — Peter Bendor-Samuel, Forbes, 28 June 2021
• Sixteen states don’t cover hearing aids for adults; others constrain eligibility for long-term care.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 28 June 2021
• The loss or failure of any one component would severely constrain its productive capacity.
  — Standish Fleming, Forbes, 29 June 2021
• The Chinese government still wishes to constrain segments of the populace—most of all, minorities.
  — Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 1 July 2021
• In the late 1970s, oil supply was constrained by OPEC and war.
  — Linsey Miller, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
• Imagine the electrons in an atom are constrained within the atom by a wall.
  — Niranjan Shivaram, The Conversation, 4 Oct. 2023
• The four dots represent walls; the fifth, the inmate constrained by them.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
• That's going to be a big, big concern that is tough to constrain.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 13 Oct. 2022
• Beijing, on the other hand, has been much less constrained by the need for balance.
  — Mark Leonard, Foreign Affairs, 8 Jan. 2024
• Thus, the robotic work cells are designed to constrain the problem set for AI.
  — Bernard Casse, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2021
• That’s one less seller and buyer, which constrains both sides of the market.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023
• Guettel’s score is worth waiting for, even constrained by the directness of the premise.
  — Vulture, 6 June 2023
• The researchers could now use the starting molecule to constrain that slice.
  — Elise Cutts, Quanta Magazine, 21 June 2023
• Whether or not life is constrained to our definition of it here on Earth.
  — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Mar. 2024
• With the structure built three feet from the property line, the couple were constrained by city code in the amount of windows allowed on the side of the building.
  — Marissa Gluck, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2023
• Providers are constrained by how much parents are willing and able to pay, which means wages for workers are low.
  — Axios, 31 July 2024
• In the models, the research team didn’t constrain how far the flying mammals could migrate.
  — Andrew Joseph, STAT, 29 Apr. 2022
• But even then, the ILWU’s actions may be constrained by contract rules.
  — Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
• Very few laws in the US even relate to data brokers, let alone constrain their actions.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
• Some parts are going to be constrained by the government on certain things.
  — Luisa Beltran, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2024
• Set in the '70s, the film follows five sisters who are constrained by their strict religious parents.
  — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2023
• Richard Klein, who organized the show, said he was drawn to the way McCloud had forged his own path, and refused to be constrained by a single style.
  — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 2 June 2024
• Still, players were constrained only by innings and outs, not time.
  — USA Today, 28 Mar. 2023
• Hybrid work is more constraining than some might think.
  — Amber Burton, Fortune, 21 July 2023
• Due to the aforementioned thin atmosphere, the team was constrained to a mass of just 4 pounds (less than 2 kg) for the entire helicopter.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 29 Jan. 2024
• Borders and boundaries no longer constrain the spread of distant outbreaks.
  — Ron Barrett, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2024
• Gray military buildings, fences and roads cannot constrain the life bursting out of the rows of tents and airport hangars where people sleep.
  — Saphora Smith, NBC News, 25 Aug. 2021
• The Dutton ranch is a place where people are branded along with the cattle, where grizzlies are roped like steer, where the physics that constrain the rest of the world no longer apply.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2022
• The Biden administration expanded those controls in 2022 to more broadly constrain chip sales to China.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 10 Dec. 2024
• With 2025 budget deliberations approaching, officials were projecting massive shortfalls, and Macron’s ability to buy his way out of a tight spot was clearly constrained.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Dec 2024