Sentence Examples

1. I must tell you, my dear, it took great restraint not to ask where on earth she kept that tin.
2. I say this, Sancho, because thou hast seen the good cheer, the abundance we have enjoyed in this castle we are leaving well then, amid those dainty banquets and snow-cooled beverages I felt as though I were undergoing the straits of hunger, because I did not enjoy them with the same freedom as if they had been mine own for the sense of being under an obligation to return benefits and favours received is a restraint that checks the independence of the spirit.
3. Kristina turned and raced into his arms, all attempts at restraint abandoned.
4. All the time of the burial he was, I could see, putting some terrible restraint on himself.
5. When they broke for lunch, there was notably less restraint in the attitudes of the other woodfolk.
6. A rage which passed all form and measure of restraint and caution.
7. It also allowed them to exercise little restraint in their beatings.
8. He let go, sensing restraint was no longer necessary.
9. I shook my finger back and forth in a gesture of restraint.
10. The lion, the tiger, and the leopard are entirely without restraint.