How to Use constrain in a Sentence

constrain

verb

• But the choice does constrain the fundamentals of the story’s inherent appeal.
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 22 Aug. 2022
• Kim Kardashian has clearly never felt the need to constrain herself to a single career path or income stream.
  — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 7 July 2022
• Russia’s intent may be malign, but its capabilities constrain it.
  — Justin Logan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Aug. 2024
• They are also constrained by the political parameters at play in their respective counties and states.
  — Zoya Teirstein, USA TODAY, 6 Aug. 2024
• However, their absence of a discovery does help constrain the properties of dark matter, as the experiment shows what dark matter is not.
  — Sophia Chen, Wired, 2 Aug. 2022
• Stagnant labor supply is also a long-term worry, because a limited supply of workers could constrain the economy’s growth potential in the long term.
  — Gwynn Guilford, WSJ, 14 Aug. 2022
• Because self-doubt is associated with the default mode of the brain, some strategies can help curb, constrain, inhibit and modulate this mode, Davidson says.
  — Monica Cull, Discover Magazine, 28 July 2022
• That could constrain the ECB's ability to keep hiking interest rates, which help combat inflation but also slow down the economy.
  — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 21 July 2022
• While the courts could constrain the federal government’s ability to cut pollution from power plants, some states are forging ahead with clean energy requirements even as other states are casting them aside.
  — Maxine Joselow, Anchorage Daily News, 30 June 2022
• 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
• 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
• Very few laws in the US even relate to data brokers, let alone constrain their actions.
  — WIRED, 2 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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 Russia-Ukraine war has constrained Russian crude oil supplies.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
• The solution here isn’t to try to parry every court action but to constrain the court’s ability to launch these blows.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 31 July 2024
• As informed and as compassionate as the workers in this field are, they are also constrained by the law and overwhelmed by the numbers.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024