How to Use constrain in a Sentence

constrain

verb

• 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
• That’s the most effective way to constrain the flow of cotton picked by hands that had no choice.
  — Adrian Zenz, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2020
• 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
• The best women’s rain boots for wide feet won’t constrain your toes or rub painfully on the sides of your feet or backs of your ankles.
  — Outdoor Life, 25 Jan. 2021
• With the ocean constraining the Palisades Fire to the south, responders will try to prevent it from breaking out to the east or west.
  — Alec Luhn, WIRED, 10 Jan. 2025
• 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
• That constrains future planning teams can do this year.
  — Sabreena Merchant, The Athletic, 21 Jan. 2025
• 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
• Still, the current pattern of weak hiring and constrained layoffs leaves little room for maneuvering.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
• These policies come from big, global companies that distribute their risks around the world and usually aren’t constrained by government regulations.
  — Umair Irfan, Vox, 5 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 7 Mar 2025