Sample Sentences for
constraint
(editor-reviewed)

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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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    Politicians and kings suffer the agony of constraint.  (source)
    constraint = limitations
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    There's no physics to worry about, no constraints on acceleration, no air resistance.  (source)
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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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    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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    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)
    constraints = limitations
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    Bedeviled as they may have been at times by the dilemma of surplus population, the traditional slaveholders of the Western world were under Christian constraint to avoid anything resembling a "final solution" to solve the problem of excess labor; one could not shoot an expensively unproductive slave;  (source)
    constraint = limited
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    We were looked after by the older brother, who must have been warned to restrain himself, for he never touched us. The younger one was under no such constraints.  (source)
    constraints = limitations (limiting his actions)
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