Sample Sentences forconstraint (editor-reviewed)
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I will devote my full energy to the project, without constraint.constraint = limitation
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They talked with uneasy constraint.constraint = inhibition or reserve
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Both sides have demonstrated a lack of constraint in the discussions.constraint = staying within limits (in this case restraining themselves from saying things that make it hard to work together)
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We want constraints on her power to spend taxpayer funds.constraints = limitations
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"Do you know what compulsion means?" "Constraint. Obligation. Because one is compelled." (source)Constraint = something that limits something else
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As the first lid opened, all constraint was gone. (source)constraint = inhibition or reserve
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But to Louie, training felt like one more constraint. (source)constraint = limitation
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"Negative liberty," he said, "is the freedom from external obstacles or constraints." (source)constraints = things that limit action
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They were only the sons of the little rich men, the lords of the village and county, but as he saw them go so surely, with such laughing unconstraint, in well-cut clothes, well-groomed, well-brushed, among the crowd of humbler students, who stiffened awkwardly with peasant hostility and constraint,—they were the flower of chivalry, the sons of the mansion-house.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unconstraint means not and reverses the meaning of constraint. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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He might have noticed that a curious constraint came over the other members of the party. (source)constraint = inhibition or reserve
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There's no physics to worry about, no constraints on acceleration, no air resistance. (source)constraints = limitations
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He masters whose spirit masters, he tastes sweetest who results sweetest in the long run, The blood of the brawn beloved of time is unconstraint; In the need of songs, philosophy, an appropriate native grand-opera, shipcraft, any craft, He or she is greatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.† (source)
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Politicians and kings suffer the agony of constraint. (source)
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I painfully explained the constraints on resources and time, telling them how frantic we were just trying to get the new office up and running. (source)
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Their only constraint will be the obligations of good faith. (source)constraint = something that limits something else
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But I want us to be in agreement about the constraints of the job. (source)constraints = limitations
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