give rein to
Example Sentences
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It was on the 1974 Lions tour to South Africa that Ripley was able to give rein to his talents.
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2010
Once in sole command after 1966, he started to give rein to his instinct as an impresario, with variable but sometimes fabulous results.
From The Guardian • Mar. 22, 2010
The scrubby vineyards and the crumbling stones become things of no account, for if I wish I can give rein to my imagination, and pick foxgloves and pale campions from a wet, streaking hedge.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
She could not give rein to her feelings without lapsing to a barbarity which she might not justify to herself even in anger and might, indeed, blush to remember.
From Mary, Mary by Colum, Padraic
Nowhere did Shakespeare give rein to his imagination with more imposing effect than in ‘The Tempest.’
From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Lee, Sidney, Sir
