constrain
Example Sentences
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LaGuardia is one of three airports where the FAA already restricts the number of runway slots to constrain capacity, alongside New York’s JFK International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
The First Amendment and decades of precedent constrain executive agencies.
From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026
Presidents have a freer hand to craft policy on the global stage, with lawmakers and courts less empowered to constrain them.
From Slate • Mar. 10, 2026
"A prolonged disruption... would begin to erode inventories, constrain logistics and tighten global oil and gas balances, with much greater effects on prices."
From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026
Such another small basin of thin gruel as his own was all that he could, with thorough self-approbation, recommend; though he might constrain himself, while the ladies were comfortably clearing the nicer things, to say:
From "Emma" by Jane Austen
Vocabulary lists containing constrain
Just Mercy
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Excerpt from "The Declaration of Independence"
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Essential English Vocabulary, List 3
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