inhibited

Example Sentences

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The outbreak of World War Two inhibited the club's film-making activities but female members kept the society going, organising fundraising events to help with the mortgage payments.

From BBC

The students most inhibited by these inner voices of doubt were not the straight white men.

From Los Angeles Times

Trump’s dishwasher rule created a new class of super-fast dishwashers with one-hour cycles that would not be inhibited by water and energy limitations.

From Washington Post

That has suppressed upward motion and inhibited updrafts, preventing the type of clustered thunderstorm activity that occasionally self-aggregates into a fledgling storm.

From Seattle Times

“And so all of these starts and stops, I think, inhibited my recovery, and maybe it took longer than it would have if I had just focused on recovering then.”

From New York Times