How to Use limitation in a Sentence

limitation

noun
  • They have placed a limitation on the amount of time we have available.
  • In 2019, though, the limitation on the IRS was removed.
    Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 16 May 2023
  • There is no statute of limitation on rape in the state of Maryland.
    Darcy Costello, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2022
  • And the once-per-year rollover limitation doesn’t apply to this one.
    Leonard Sloane, WSJ, 3 Sep. 2022
  • At peak, the canal’s limitations allow for a 50-foot draft to pass through.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 12 July 2024
  • And in that respect, there are limitations on what the show — and what Fallon — can and will do.
    Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Dec. 2024
  • The other limitation is that your kiddo has to be facing in, either in the front or the back.
    Maya Polton Updated, Parents, 11 July 2023
  • But there is the limitation, though, that at some point the mountain doesn’t go any higher.
    Jacopo Pasotti, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The team meets the limitations of a beer and wine license with creative gumption, in the form of cocktails laced with sake and shochu.
    Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
  • The most unique provision in Capriglione’s bill is the limitation to those 18 years and older.
    Joseph Hoyt, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
  • For many of you, this bad habit seems to be your addiction to limitation.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2022
  • Part of that could be due to the limitations handed to the creators, who weren’t allowed to post videos of the actual events.
    Marah Eakin, WIRED, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Rock, rap, pop, R&B and country artists don’t have those limitations, so why should Latin artists?
    Mesfin Fekadu, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Donald can’t hit those high notes, but the sound of Donald working within his limitations is the sound of Steely Dan to me.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 May 2023
  • But Take Note The biggest limitation is that the gun blaster needs to be connected via a short wire to the vest receiver.
    Maya Polton, Parents, 7 Mar. 2024
  • But a lot of this is limitations the Lakers were forced to deal with after bad deals in the two years following the title.
    Dan Woike, Los Angeles Times, 14 Aug. 2024
  • This was a limitation, albeit a very rare one of the oral polio vaccine.
    ABC News, 27 July 2022
  • Not one of the passengers on that ship perceived their age as a limitation.
    Virginia Hammerle, Dallas News, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The first forbids the restriction or limitation of a mother’s right to breastfeed in places that are open to the public.
    Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022
  • If the trappings of a bourgeois life make up one of the central threads of A Doll’s House, the limitations imposed on women make up the other.
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Dixon had been charged with raping Bowdoin, but the charge was later dropped on statute-of-limitation grounds.
    CBS News, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Flag football, on the other hand, faces few of those limitations.
    Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 26 June 2024
  • Sometimes, owners won’t even be on the same flight with their pets due to certain limitations.
    Kathleen Wong, USA TODAY, 24 July 2024
  • That could be considered a limitation, since many will wonder what’s the point of a movie that tells us nothing new.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 May 2024
  • The jumpsuit’s chocolate brown hue and loose draping which is perfect to wear to a workout class and beyond the limitations of a gym.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 Jan. 2024
  • And, at the same time, provides many more of us with a positive road map of how to live with and transcend the limitations of mental illness.
    Steven Petrow, Washington Post, 14 May 2023
  • Of course the lure as well as the limitation is that Werther is a puppyish manchild, enamored with his own bag of tricks.
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Dec. 2024
  • And, so, the players that don’t have limitation with injury are better.
    Dallas News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • When Schmidt was about to meet with the Soviets as Carter was working on an arms limitation deal, the chancellor refused to talk to Carter or his secretary of state in advance.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 30 Dec. 2024
  • Eclipses in this area of your life push you to release financial burdens and limitations and redefine your values.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 1 Jan. 2025

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