restrainer

Example Sentences

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Where are the supposed realists and restrainers who run this Administration?

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 22, 2025

But then among the restrainers strode Majorityite Arturo Illas Hourruitinier.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is only needful to look around us to see that the greatest restrainers of the anti-social tendencies of men is fear, not of the law, but of the opinions of their fellows.

From Unfettered A Novel by Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert)

Habit and public opinion are strong restrainers, stronger sometimes than even the most carefully inculcated abstract principles.

From Peter's Mother by De La Pasture, Henry, Mrs.

The sea-grown plant adhered instantly, wet strands knitting in perfect restrainers as long as it was uncut.

From Key Out of Time by Norton, Andre