Sample Sentences for
constrained
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    To make matters worse, it seems that our greatest authors, due to some deep-rooted sense of tradition or a complete lack of imagination, constrained themselves to the use of thirty given names.  (source)
    constrained = limited
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    The scientists may wish to constrain you.  (source)
    constrain = restrict or limit actions
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    Excellent at constraining evil spirits, isn't it?  (source)
    constraining = restricting
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    ...it is very grievous to be constrained to keep our hands off such a dainty dish as Narnia.  (source)
    constrained = restricted in action
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    Outer circumstances can constrain us.†  (source)
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    The Everest climb had rocked my LIFE to its core, and it became desperately important for me to record the events in complete detail, unconstrained by a limited number of column inches.  (source)
    unconstrained = uninhibited
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstrained means not and reverses the meaning of constrained. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    I describe everything exactly as it took place, constraining my mind not to wander from the task.†  (source)
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    Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.†  (source)
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    Ralph glanced sideways, smiled constrainedly as though he had forgotten that Simon had made a fool of himself, then looked away again at nothing.†  (source)
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    Those of earth-born passion, simple, never constrain'd, never obedient, Those of inland America.†  (source)
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    32:18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She constraineth" in older English, today we say "She constrains."
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    The correspondence between George and his guardian had not ceased by any means: William had even written once or twice to her since his departure, but in a manner so unconstrainedly cold that the poor woman felt now in her turn that she had lost her power over him and that, as he had said, he was free.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstrainedly means not and reverses the meaning of constrainedly. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    constrainings seize thee; I see!†  (source)
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