Sample Sentences for
stricture
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    I consider myself bound by the laws of my government and the strictures of my religion.
    strictures = constraints to behavior
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    Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.  (source)
    strictures = criticisms that place constraints on behavior
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    My father did, in any case, rapidly discover a way to circumvent the limitations on his effectiveness implied by the stricture that he should carry no laden trays.†  (source)
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    Harry doubted that Snape had even heard her strictures on Mul-ciber and Avery.†  (source)
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    There is no stricture on you, for you have tried.†  (source)
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    As such, she would be governed by the same rules and strictures that applied to all those who worked directly for the service.†  (source)
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    A smile that was permanently in conflict with some inner stricture against the seductiveness of humor.†  (source)
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    What would I give to hear your strictures on them!†  (source)
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    Yet a feeling of stricture, of a responding hopelessness almost approaching ferocity, grew with alarming quickness about her.†  (source)
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    My father had less mad strictures about the city, though still intense ones.†  (source)
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    He ignored this stricture.†  (source)
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    There are those who believed we should always reject bail, as it could be interpreted that we were fainthearted rebels who accepted the racist strictures of the legal system.†  (source)
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    I shall call this stricture, this rigidity, "death among the apple trees" for ever.†  (source)
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