How to Use rein in a Sentence

rein

1 of 2 noun

• He has people working for him, but he has a tight rein on every part of the process.
• These include the long rein, the airs above the ground and the quadrille.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2021
• To keep the team going, the solution was to hand the reins of the team off to the sons.
  — Kimberly Winter Stern, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024
• The 2-year-old slowed to a walk and Camacho grabbed the reins with his hands.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• County leaders have called for the state to take the reins of the program.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• So take hold of it and grab the reins to a new tomorrow.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 13 Apr. 2023
• As the stylebook reminds us, seize the reins, give free rein to, put a rein on.
  — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
• What does the change mean for his son taking over the reins of the Murdoch empire?
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• And Peter, of course, took over the reins of the father and did a remarkable job.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2023
• Now 76, Rita has retired and passed the reins over to Cedella.
  — Vandana Pawa, Peoplemag, 13 July 2023
• John Straley takes us on a wild ride, but with the reins held firmly in his able hands.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2020
• While the pass gets you in, America the Beautiful doesn’t give you full rein of the park.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Outside Online, 23 Feb. 2022
• Just loosen the reins on the galloping horse of restriction?
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 10 Jan. 2024
• An agent on horseback leans over, grabbing a man by the shirt as a rein dangles.
  — Hamed Aleazizstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
• The plan all along was for VanVleet to serve as a bridge to the future until Thompson was ready to take over the reins.
  — Rahat Huq, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• Self-finance required a tight grip on the reins of spending.
  — Trevor Clawson, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Whether the pending lawsuits can put reins on AI remains to be seen.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• In this event, the cowboy uses a saddle and holds onto a rein with one hand.
  — Tess Demeyer, Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2020
• But for decades, NASA also kept a tight rein on each project’s planning phase.
  — Clive Thompson, The New Republic, 3 Dec. 2020
• Sign up That is now, to put it lightly, what has happened during Musk’s six months at the reins.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
• The sign's rein starts in the final days of October and covers just about all of the following month.
  — Anna Kaufman, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
• As the animal clops down the empty street at dawn, Reale guides it with black leather reins, her hands in gloves that match.
  — Jill Langlois, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2023
• Alex recently took over the reins of the 92-year-old’s $25 billion fortune.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 16 June 2023
• In addition to keeping a tight rein on lawyers, the judge has already moved once to keep the Huntsman case on track.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 June 2021
• For about $65, there is the add-on option of a picnic and ride in a cart pulled by two horses, an employee at the reins.
  — David Segal, New York Times, 1 May 2023
• However, there are driving forces that compel HR to grab the reins.
  — Doug Leeby, Forbes, 19 Apr. 2023
• Jim Davis stars as the elder Ewing with Larry Hagman well cast as his oldest son — and heir to the reins.
  — Richard Hack, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Apr. 2023
• With Bautista sidelined, the Orioles have handed the closer reins to Kimbrel.
  — Matt Weyrich, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2024
• The following one will be entirely under the reins of Barak.
  — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2023
• Every Lunar New Year, a new zodiac animal takes over the reins of fate.
  — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024

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rein

2 of 2 verb

• Most of the time, the parents try to rein the behavior back in.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 31 Oct. 2023
• And there’s been no mechanism in sight to rein that in.
  — ABC News, 8 Jan. 2023
• And the 74-year-old businessman shows no signs of reining it in.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 June 2023
• In other words, the court may rein in Big Tech in a way Congress hasn’t chosen to.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
• The state of Missouri, where the most puppy mills are, has been unwilling to rein it in.
  — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
• With their cloud-nine highs and rock-bottom lows, who or what can rein in the passions of teenagers in love?
  — Guillermo Perez, Sun Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
• In an effort to rein in inflation, the Fed raised rates six times.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2022
• Others might feel the need to rein themselves in and play the straight woman to anchor a cast of eccentrics.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 May 2023
• But the November election could rein in some of the largest water users.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• Pesina was Tobias’ friend, but talking to him had done nothing to rein him in.
  — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2022
• And the active roll bars and Bilstein adaptive dampers rein-in body roll and keep things level.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2022
• These were rather subtle gestures in the grand scheme of things from a frontman who refuses to rein it in.
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2022
• As a result, investors are urging Tesla’s board to rein Musk in.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 24 Apr. 2023
• In fact, the only thing that national leadership has ever done for the rest of the gang is to sort of rein them in when the optics look bad.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2022
• But after misjudging inflation for most of last year, the Fed’s plan to rein it back in could backfire.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• But the solution to this dilemma is not to fight the militias directly or compel the Iraqi government to rein them in.
  — Steven Simon and Adam Weinstein, Foreign Affairs, 27 Sep. 2023
• But advertisers, users and perhaps lenders may rein him in if Congress does not first tighten the rules.
  — Alexandra Olson and Maryclaire Dale, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2022
• Several steps should be taken to rein in the spread of Candida auris, Faust said.
  — Kristen Jordan Shamus, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
• In its epic battle to rein in inflation, the Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate five times this year.
  — Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• That cleared the way for the legislature to rein in the governor's emergency powers.
  — Bruce Schreiner, ajc, 11 Sep. 2022
• The board, the attorneys argued, had no power to rein in Cavanaugh, who was elected by voters.
  — Sasha Hupka, The Arizona Republic, 8 Feb. 2023
• LinkedIn became the latest tech company to lay off employees to rein back costs.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 May 2023
• Once the debt is wiped away, what we're left with is the gnarly reality that tuition costs are out of control, with no magic bullet to rein them in.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 28 Aug. 2022
• Take advantage of that before people start to rein in their spending.
  — Jon Picoult, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• That works against the central bank’s aim to slow spending and rein in inflation by raising rates enough to tighten the flow of money in the economy.
  — Akane Otani, WSJ, 18 Aug. 2022
• View Photos An engine that can punt a car forward with the force of this V-8 requires brakes that are equally forceful when reining a car in.
  — Joe Lorio, Car and Driver, 4 July 2023
• For others, the arrests seemed like a necessary step to rein in county leaders who many believed had been skirting the rules.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022
• Why has value reined supreme throughout much of history?
  — Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 21 June 2023
• Now the dynamic is strikingly different—the tech companies are the Goliaths of business, with artists, musicians, and writers attempting to rein them in.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
• Too many subsidiary characters are shrilly one-note, and given no encouragement to rein it in, with Tucker particularly merciless in that regard.
  — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 22 June 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024