restraint
Example Sentences
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Ali praised Dosanjh's ability to bring warmth and restraint to emotionally complex scenes, particularly opposite Shah's character who struggles with Alzheimer's disease.
From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026
It looks like a sector attempting to reaccelerate after a long period of policy-driven restraint.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 6, 2026
Eisenhower may not have had Churchill’s romanticism, but part of his greatness was his capacity for restraint.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
I appreciated the restraint exercised by Caleb Eberhardt, who trusted the audience to discern what it needed to discern about Kenneth when he played the role at La Jolla Playhouse.
From Los Angeles Times • May 29, 2026
Men coming to his blacksmith shop to talk and listen dropped their cursing for a while, not from any kind of restraint but automatically, as though this were not the place for it.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
Vocabulary lists containing restraint
Theodore Roosevelt on "New Nationalism" (1910)
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Excerpts from "Jacobson v. Massachusetts"
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Talk Like Shakespeare Day, List 4
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