restrictively

Example Sentences

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Anna Hopkins plays Fret, a medical researcher working to thwart a spreading plague called Coral, which causes humans to grow a restrictively stiff shell on their skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Mr. Musk has criticized Twitter for moderating its platform too restrictively and has said more speech should be allowed.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Rural America is only doomed to decline if you define it so restrictively that it’s not allowed to grow.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2019

Other countries, like Italy, have quotation exceptions, but courts have interpreted them quite restrictively.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2019

Another man, with a mind discriminatively and restrictively trained to recognize differences, would learn in five minutes to distinguish the individualities of the twins.

From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.