How to Use restrain in a Sentence

restrain

verb
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  • He was restrained and placed in a holding cell.
  • He could not restrain the dog from attacking.
  • He could barely restrain his anger.
  • He could restrain himself no longer.
  • The manufacturer took measures to restrain costs.
  • Hospital orderlies needed to restrain the patient.
  • There are all these ideas of how to restrain the power of the president.
    — Abc News, ABC News, 9 May 2024
  • Tupac scrambled to get to the man behind the desk, but someone on the tour restrained him.
    — Staci Robinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
  • In the video, officers forcibly try to restrain Nichols and Hemphill fires his Taser as Nichols gets to his feet and flees.
    — Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
  • The boy had been restrained inside the building by members of the public.
    — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Few of them are likely to want to restrain themselves in such a fashion for very long.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The woman told Jones that she had been restrained with duct tape during the attack, and that the tape might still be at her house.
    — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
  • When Alexander tried to restrain him, Hart-Ikari turned and punched him in the face about four times, the affidavit says.
    — oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Shortly after, the school employees restrained him at the end of the hall for about eight minutes, the footage shows.
    — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • One of the toughest events is the carambola, in which teams of men or women restrain an unruly cow in the rodeo ring.
    — Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
  • Throughout the video, the woman keeps pushing back whenever the flight crew tries to restrain her.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Hospital staff are in the room watching or helping to restrain him.
    — Salvador Rizzo, Laura Vozzella and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • The 30-year-old man who died had been screaming on the train when the other passenger restrained him, according to the New York Times.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • The risk of injury increases if your pet isn’t restrained, because they could be thrown throughout the car.
    — Emma Janssen, Miami Herald, 22 Feb. 2024
  • The announcement adds to a string of moves by the Biden administration to embrace and restrain AI.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2024
  • While Neely was in the chokehold, two other males helped Penny by restraining Neely's arms.
    — Stephen Smith, CBS News, 12 May 2023
  • Prosecutors said that the man was forced to unlock his bank accounts and was then restrained with belts.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2024
  • Here at last were the details of Cimino’s outsize ego and UA’s futile attempts to restrain it.
    — Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • Multiple passengers got the man to the ground and flight attendants restrained him with duct tape and flexi cuffs, Etkind said.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Video from a passenger on the plane shows the unidentified woman being restrained by members of the flight crew.
    — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Agnes listened with her hand over her mouth, as if restraining herself from jumping in with a thought.
    — Rachel Aviv, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
  • The flight attendants and passenger restrained the woman to her seat using tape and flex cuffs.
    — Nicole Lopez, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2024
  • Sauceda said Alvarez attempted to flee and was restrained by bystanders at the scene.
    — USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
  • Walz comes off as humble, restrained, and eloquent in an everyman way.
    — Mia Sato, The Verge, 7 Aug. 2024
  • Sulton said the forehead injuries were caused by the four employees restraining him on the concrete.
    — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2024

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