How to Use constraint in a Sentence

constraint

noun

• They refuse to work under constraint any longer.
• Lack of funding has been a major constraint on the building's design.
• They demand freedom from constraint.
• There's no time constraint, so there is no need to rush.
  — Joseph Epstein, Newsweek, 10 Dec. 2024
• The problem seems clear: The constraint is the labor market.
  — Johannes Mayer, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2021
• His bank’s constraint is access to capital—not profitable places in the community to invest.
  — Ike Brannon, Forbes, 25 Oct. 2021
• Such a constraint would be technically trivial to implement.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 22 Oct. 2021
• The absence of regular commercial air service is another big constraint, the official said.
  — Jake Tapper and Jennifer Hansler, CNN, 28 Sep. 2021
• Her subtitle posits the juxtaposition of care and constraint, whereby one shows the former by exercising the latter.
  — Washington Post, 13 Sep. 2021
• And that the main reason for the space constraint was a Long Beach ordinance preventing more than two containers from being stacked atop each other onshore.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 28 Oct. 2021
• Another constraint, Miele explained, was that the game production required motion capture of human movement.
  — Lydia Belanger, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2021
• After all, race isn’t the only constraint that exists; there are also expectations for mothers, for wives, for women’s sexuality.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 9 Nov. 2021
• Mande notes that fiscal constraints have hindered past efforts to implement major food reforms, and Kennedy could face similar difficulties.
  — Nik Popli, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024
• Patel is well aware that many constraints on what the Bureau says and does are governed by institutional norms and internal policy—and can, in theory, be changed as needed.
  — Beverly Gage, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2024
• The big constraint will be the speed of the permitting process.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 12 Oct. 2020
• And the biggest constraint is the device's field of view.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 19 Apr. 2016
• Growth constraintsPart of the state's struggle has been staffing, the records show.
  — James Bruggers, The Courier-Journal, 22 June 2017
• So far, the crown prince has faced no such constraints.
  — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2018
• Due to time constraints, though, the Tri-Wing didn't make the film’s final cut.
  — Jon Alain Guzik, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2019
• Covid-19 is the constraint that is now pushing the whole world to transform.
  — Tim Peck, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2020
• To work around this constraint, the researchers abused the window.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 3 Sep. 2020
• Mike LaFleur called a constraint to that same look to open the fourth quarter.
  — Derrik Klassen, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
• Her siblings, too, chafed at the constraints of life in St. Marys.
  — Emma Green, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2019
• Time to step into the future and free your true love from the constraints of wires.
  — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
• The constraints of the difficult site drove much of the design, says Berry.
  — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• The time constraint forced me to a an almost clockwork pace.
  — Graeme McMillan, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Mar. 2018
• The roots of being, if healthy, are never a constraint but a tool for growth.
  — Francesca Marani, Vogue, 9 Mar. 2022
• That's not the fault of ULA, but a constraint imposed by its payload.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 24 Oct. 2023
• So would their struggle to break free of these constraints.
  — Joost Hiltermann, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2017
• The sheer weight of the electric battery is the main constraint of these planes, Mukhopadhaya said.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 10 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Jan 2025