How to Use unrestrained in a Sentence

unrestrained

adjective
  • The child in the car accident was unrestrained.
  • She was fined for driving with an unrestrained infant.
  • In police footage, Cox can be seen unrestrained in the back of the van.
    Ana Ley, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
  • While the high-fives and group hugs are on hold, the zeal of the players and coaches both is unrestrained.
    David Taylor, Houston Chronicle, 12 June 2020
  • The project needs to be completely unrestrained, and Gunn was the perfect man for the job.
    Jacob Siegal, BGR, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Her goal was to show Tripp that fire didn’t have to be a volatile, unrestrained force wreaking damage.
    J.d. Morris, SFChronicle.com, 28 Dec. 2020
  • Meanwhile, the white teen is seen in the background watching, unrestrained.
    Natasha Dado, PEOPLE.com, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Future records are playgrounds for the unrestrained straight male id.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2022
  • Wednesday is dark and snarky; her one-liners are scathing and unrestrained.
    Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Wise was the passenger of a car driven by a woman and three unrestrained minors were found in the back seat.
    Bob Blubaugh, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 24 May 2021
  • His calls caught the attention of her unrestrained dog, prompting it to bark and charge toward him.
    Tristan Balagtas, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2022
  • The Dodgers were a successful team but one with unrestrained spending habits.
    BostonGlobe.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The same person returned to the business at around 9:20 a.m., and Kaur and the baby were then taken from the business, unrestrained, and put in the truck, officials said.
    Jordan Parker, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Motorists driving with an unrestrained child could face a fine of $250 in addition to court costs.
    Patrick Strickland, Dallas News, 16 Nov. 2020
  • Along Walter Drive on Monday, several young men came to feed unrestrained dogs around the house where the shooting took place.
    J. David Goodman, New York Times, 2 May 2023
  • He was handcuffed but otherwise unrestrained in the van when Diaz hit the brakes and Cox was thrown head-first into the front of the rear compartment, records show.
    Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 11 Jan. 2023
  • Those women are bored to death with their lives and shower their pet dogs with unrestrained adoration.
    Harper's Magazine, 20 July 2021
  • Dorsey, who is well liked by colleagues, has until now enjoyed unrestrained support from the board.
    Patricia Sullivan, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2020
  • The woman’s daughter, 7, who was unrestrained, was a passenger in the auto.
    cleveland, 9 May 2020
  • Parents with their children were seated, unrestrained, at the front.
    Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
  • Decades of unrestrained public spending have turned their budgets into a ball and chain.
    Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2022
  • In the closing sequence of this episode, Solomon is at his most unrestrained, dancing in the rain, while his grandmother wades into the water on her home shores for the first time in 50 years.
    Rebecca Sun, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2022
  • Four children — two six-year-olds, a three-year-old and a one-year-old infant — were unrestrained passengers in the rear seat of the Keith’s vehicle.
    Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2020
  • Or, at least there would be a lot of applause for giving an unabashed, and unrestrained, performance.
    Todd Nordstrom, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2021
  • His choice of words is interesting here, and indicative of how unrestrained they’ll all become by the episode’s end.
    Steffan Triplett, Vulture, 16 May 2021
  • But there can no longer be any doubt about the kind of presidency the United States would face from a vindicated and unrestrained Trump in a new four-year term.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 15 Sep. 2021
  • The youngest humans are a fearsome force, the last source of any real vigor in society, but unrestrained by any social mores.
    Jack Butler, National Review, 14 Mar. 2020
  • The driver of the Dodge Dakota, who was unrestrained, sustained minor injuries.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 27 Nov. 2020
  • Since their debut in 2017, Japanese band Chai have become known for their unrestrained pop rock.
    Natalia Barr, WSJ, 31 May 2021
  • This fear response can be described as an unrestrained and all-consuming fear.
    Popular Science, 2 June 2020

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