How to Use limiting in a Sentence

limiting

adjective

• As a writer, I find the drama genre to be very limiting.
• A limiting factor on our country's economic performance is its lack of resources.
• Winter can be the limiting time of year for deer and other wildlife.
  — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2017
• This was not the case with the Magic Leap 1, which had a very limiting field-of-view and buggy controller.
  — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• But Hayes insists that Olds’s work is too distinctive to be contained by such a limiting term.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• From there, Motoyama's team clued in on the most limiting factor of the Hololens hardware: that its visible field of view is far too small.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 21 Mar. 2018
• One of the most limiting factors to good grouse habitat is the availability of winter food.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
• Of course, range is always the limiting issue with electric vehicles of any sort, and the RR is no different.
  — Chuck Squatriglia, WIRED, 29 July 2010
• The most limiting factor for these stockings is acquiring brood stock.
  — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021
• In fact, staffing may be one of the most limiting factors in a unicorn’s ultimate success if not properly addressed.
  — Pete Wilkins, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
• The most limiting factor are the pods themselves, which are about the size of a small sedan and most often carried in pairs on the bed of a hulking three-axle transport, with another two towed behind on an attached trailer.
  — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
• One advantageous or limiting trait is not all that affects cat coat color.
  — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
• This can be very limiting and vitriolic in a way that shuts down conversation when things get complicated.
  — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018
• Her interpretation of what items were too personal was far more limiting than mine.
  — Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2021
• Our pros love how this innovative jacket stayed warm without feeling bulky or limiting range of motion.
  — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 12 Aug. 2022
• Those more limiting phrases are indeed a red flag—especially given that Rosenstein didn’t once use the word independent in his answer.
  — Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
• The very limiting portrayals of gender which have sustained the advertising industry for well over a century no longer resonate with our social world.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 18 June 2019
• Democrats would need 10 Republican votes to move a package through the Senate without the faster but more limiting budget reconciliation process.
  — Adam Aton, Scientific American, 13 May 2021
• Finally, the permit process has been a big limiting factor in expediting CCS deployment.
  — Soyoung Oh, The Conversation, 11 May 2023
• Many Latino writers feel stuck — and begin to stagnate — in entry-level roles and a pipeline of diversity initiatives that can feel more limiting than liberating.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
• Border policies have long restricted asylum seekers’ access to U.S. soil, and under the pandemic those restrictions became even more limiting.
  — Kate Morrissey, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2021
• But, in many ways, Joyce's definition of feminism is both limiting and pretty contradictory.
  — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2022
• Understanding how to balance these costs and benefits requires some degree of quantification—we'd like to know both how effective lockdowns are at limiting infections, as well as a sense of their economic and emotional costs.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 13 Nov. 2020
• Terry Crews seems to be devoting his career to subverting mainstream ideas about masculinity, and reminding men how limiting and often harmful the culturally accepted script of How to Be a Man really is.
  — Jaya Saxena, GQ, 20 Apr. 2018
• The pathological privileging of a specific, white, muscular, Western idealized version of beauty that is so phenomenally narrow and rigid and limiting and racist and exclusionary.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 8 June 2020
• Toxic masculinity is, after all, a limiting and regressive stranglehold for everyone.
  — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2021
• The commission suggested limiting preferences for the extended family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who could previously apply for a visa under the 1965 Immigration Act, and basing entry entry on job skills.
  — Priscilla Alvarez, The Atlantic, 21 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024