self-restraint
Example Sentences
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Their lack of self restraint would result in an explosion.
From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2024
Locsin warned Beijing's "failure to exercise self restraint threatens the special relationship" between the two countries.
From Reuters • Nov. 18, 2021
He had a moment of self restraint and stopped.
From The Guardian • Aug. 25, 2015
"Dorothy, I don't understand you at all," said the young man, with evident self restraint.
From While Caroline Was Growing by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam
Her lips were compressed, the outward symbol of a life of silent hours and self restraint.
From The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day by Stark, Harriet