How to Use restricted in a Sentence

restricted

adjective

• You have entered a restricted area.
• He is on a severely restricted diet.
• Shaquille O’Neal stand at the edge of the restricted area.
  — Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
• At the same event two decades ago, AR-15s were shown only in restricted areas in the back.
  — Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
• How much does a team have to pay a restricted free agent to retain their rights?
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
• White is 7 for 27 this season on shots in the paint but outside the restricted area.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 9 Nov. 2021
• Two of his makes were half-spin jumpers just outside the restricted area.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 7 Oct. 2021
• With the Black laws, freed Black folks were very restricted to prevent them from moving to the state.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
• Porzingis went 7-for-7 inside the restricted area and drew four fouls (6-for-8 on free throws).
  — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
• The 22-year old Zegras was a restricted free agent and was working out in New York.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
• Toles didn’t report to spring training last year and has since been on the club’s restricted list.
  — Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
• The statement said Hodge was in the restricted area under the basket and the play was reviewable in the last two minutes of the game.
  — Bob Holt, Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2023
• With Franco unable to perform, the team would have to place him on the restricted list and he would no longer be paid.
  — Kristie Ackert, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• And as a pending restricted free agent, his future in Big D with the Stars was murky at best.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
• Thrun, 23, was a restricted free agent, one of two the Sharks had entering this week.
  — Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
• Givani Smith, a restricted free agent, has yet to be re-signed.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 7 Sep. 2021
• The Bears declined to extend a restricted free agent tender to Mustipher in March.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2023
• The 30-year-old Moore, who was a restricted free agent this offseason, re-signed in March for two years.
  — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2023
• Lora spent the entire DSL season on the restricted list in 2022.
  — Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2023
• Bridges and the Hornets, who will have to decide whether to keep the restricted free agent, meet the Atlanta Hawks in a play-in game Wednesday.
  — Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2022
• Rogers made his first start since July 31 after a stint on the restricted list.
  — sun-sentinel.com, 5 Sep. 2021
• Wheeler shovel pass to Collins, who leaped at least four feet beyond the lane's restricted area and over the Colonels' Kahliel Spear for the slam.
  — Reina Kempt, The Courier-Journal, 13 Nov. 2021
• The risk is losing Tyler as a restricted free agent next summer.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
• Only three teams had allowed more shots than the Clippers in the restricted area per game.
  — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
• The catcher was placed on the restricted list (meaning he didn’t get paid) and likely would not have played one of the games anyway.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
• Most promising is a return to form around the basket, where LaVine is shooting 66.9% in the restricted area.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
• Hundreds of flights enter the restricted airspace around the U.S. Capitol each week.
  — Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
• Griffith was set to be a restricted free agent but now returns to Denver for 2024.
  — Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2024
• Instead, Bateman would have played out the 2024 season and then been a restricted free agent come March.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 16 Jan. 2025
• Court records show Huttle entered into an agreement with federal prosecutors in August 2023, pleading guilty to a charge of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 28 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 15 Feb 2025