Sample Sentences for
rein
(editor-reviewed)

rein as in:  to rein in their activities

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    She is committed to reining in excessive government infringement of personal freedom.
    reining in = restraining
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    He tries desperately to rein himself in as Mengele arrives.  (source)
    rein = restrain or control
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    How can you do anything, unless you can spin round at once when the rein is pressed on your neck?  (source)
    rein = leather strap (that is used with a bit to control a horse or mule)
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    He loosened the reins on his horse, who galloped forward over the rocks and sand.  (source)
    reins = leather straps used with a bit to control a horse
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    My voice got shaky, and I had to rein myself in to finish my remarks.†  (source)
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    He reined the mare in tight and kept his heels hard against her sides to let her know he meant business.  (source)
    reined = restrained or controlled
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    He reined in the horse and climbed down from the wagon.  (source)
    reined in = restrained (stopped by pulling on straps used to control a horse)
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    "Rein in your beast," he whispered stiffly.  (source)
    Rein in = restrain
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    I tried reining them in, but they broke loose, night after night.†  (source)
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    She was an enthusiast, reining in her enthusiasm whenever she felt it becoming too pronounced.†  (source)
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    His son, the second Virbius, yet retain'd His father's art, and warrior steeds he rein'd.†  (source)
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    Up led by thee Into the Heaven of Heavens I have presumed, An earthly guest, and drawn empyreal air, Thy tempering: with like safety guided down Return me to my native element: Lest from this flying steed unreined, (as once Bellerophon, though from a lower clime,) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall, Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unreined means not and reverses the meaning of reined. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    my nose fair pinched off me with the wind, and my 'ands that numb I couldn't 'ardly 'old the reins?  (source)
    reins = straps used to control a horse
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