How to Use stricture in a Sentence

stricture

noun

• And some survivors are still bound by the strictures of NDAs.
  — Maureen Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• Who but a child would accept the strictures of life with Elvis?
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• With the strictures of what, say, Comcast has on them, right?
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 15 June 2018
• In view of those strictures, the EU deal that emerged last Friday was vague and full of holes.
  — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• The structures and strictures of society, the rules of wrong and right, lies and truth?
  — William Giraldi, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• The south has long been readier than the north to agitate against the strictures of caste.
  — The Economist, 21 June 2019
• The men and the few women who came to the UpStairs Lounge were, in many ways, trapped by societal strictures.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2018
• Those who break such strictures are smitten (or whacked with fines of up to 4% of global turnover).
  — The Economist, 23 Apr. 2020
• Even with Rome's new policies, the capital has a long way to go to match Venice's strictures.
  — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2019
• The budget bill, on the other hand, includes no such strictures.
  — oregonlive, 21 June 2023
• But Zalmy has begun to chafe at the strictures of Hasidic Judaism.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
• Here was a genre that was often angry, often a protest—the use of loops could evoke the strictures a rapper raged against.
  — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 July 2023
• But going back this time, under these kinds of strictures, was weird.
  — Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
• By breaking sounds loose from the strictures of time and genre, DJ Shadow implies that the music still runs free.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• The board’s reading comes as a surprise to the home-rule cities that have believed for years Amendment 41’s strictures didn’t apply to them.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2017
• Philip is also the last of the royals to have a certain freedom despite the strictures of his gilded cage as the monarch’s consort.
  — Juliet Rieden, Town & Country, 10 June 2019
• But about a month into Kelly's tenure, Trump began to chafe at the strictures.
  — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 7 Apr. 2018
• But about a month into Kelly’s tenure, Trump began to chafe at the strictures.
  — Washington Post, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• But if the convention ignores such strictures, there might be no way to enforce them.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• The event has created sparks within golf for upending the traditions and strictures of how the game is played.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023
• Needless to say, within months of opening and with bad word of mouth building, such strictures were abolished.
  — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2024
• But by the time Chisel began on the campus of Notre Dame, its members were already chafing at the strictures of hardcore.
  — Chris Kelly, Washington Post, 10 May 2023
• So there’s a kind of radical, and even progressive, stance in the women’s willingness to perform the baptism against the strictures of the church.
  — Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• While writing about Ming dynasty reproductive medicine, See was well aware of the strictures placed on women at that time — and in our own.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2023
• But her strictures are meant as much for diffident voters as for the president.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• Most were eventually released and told to leave the country — a stricture that many ignore, lacking the funds and desire to go home.
  — Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2022
• Trump has been bristling at the stricture ever since, violating the order more than a half-dozen times, and, on Tuesday, was found in contempt.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 4 May 2024
• To violate its strictures on the height of trees or the colors of drapes was to risk fines or even the termination of member privileges.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 19 June 2023
• Governments in countries such as Poland and Hungary bristle over E.U. strictures on the usage of coal.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 31 July 2023
• Its people wrestled with their own biases, strictures, and fears.
  — Sarah Nooter / Made By History, TIME, 9 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024