How to Use rein in in a Sentence

rein in

phrasal verb
  • In many cases, the Grizzlies let go of the reins in the fourth quarter.
    Clay Bailey, USA TODAY, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Europe has moved ahead of the US in its efforts to rein in tech.
    Lauren Feiner, The Verge, 21 Mar. 2024
  • Some of his freestyle tendencies will need to be reined in. 8.
    Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2023
  • There have been lots of proposals from people on the left over the past few years to rein in the Roberts court.
    Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • But maybe taxing cow farts will help rein in emissions that warm the globe?
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 27 June 2024
  • In the past, central banks often relied on growth to rein in debt.
    Iese Business School, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The Amazon suit isn’t Khan’s only effort to rein in Big Tech.
    Brian Fung, CNN, 16 Oct. 2023
  • In practice, this type of model has had mixed results and struggles to rein in the cost of health care.
    Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Investors still expect the Fed to hike rates one—if not two—more times this year to rein in price pressures.
    Eric Wallerstein, WSJ, 30 June 2023
  • Floyd’s murder fueled protests across the country and efforts to rein in the police.
    Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 31 July 2024
  • The Biden administration hoped to rein in the Israeli answer to the strikes.
    Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • Congress wanted to pass a bill that was going to rein in big pharma.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 3 Oct. 2024
  • But the elephant in the room is reining in hospitals, which make up the largest portion of U.S. health care spending.
    Rachel Cohrs, STAT, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Slashing just the parts of the budget the House proposals focus on would do little to rein in the deficit as other costs rise.
    Marianna Sotomayor, Washington Post, 24 Sep. 2023
  • Netanyahu’s allies say the plan is needed to rein in the power of unelected judges.
    Tia Goldenberg, BostonGlobe.com, 16 July 2023
  • Netanyahu's allies say the plan is needed to rein in the power of unelected judges.
    Josef Federman, USA TODAY, 15 July 2023
  • And the team has spent the last few months focused on reining in some of those performance issues, trying to make Arc both fun and fast.
    David Pierce, The Verge, 25 July 2023
  • Many began to blame the mother for not reining in her child’s behavior.
    Chris Lau, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • Proponents said the law will rein in sky-high drug prices and corporate tax deadbeats.
    Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
  • Rose, 6-under at the turn, stumbled with a bogey at the 12th hole and despite two birdies on his final three holes could never rein in the leader.
    Bob Gillespie, Charlotte Observer, 21 July 2024
  • Costco is one of the latest companies to try to rein in sharing of paid memberships.
    Ngai Yeung, WSJ, 28 June 2023
  • But with its sunny climate and prices about half as much as in Paris and Zurich, the efforts to rein in demand are having little impact.
    Henrique Almeida, Fortune Europe, 15 Dec. 2023
  • The paper helped kick off a debate about whether U.S. antitrust laws needed to be modernized to rein in tech giants.
    David McCabe, New York Times, 26 Sep. 2023
  • As the crowd grew larger and more eager Wednesday night, event staff repeatedly sought to rein in the excitable throng and clear a walking path.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 11 Aug. 2023
  • Congress does have other ways to rein in a rogue judiciary.
    Ian Millhiser, Vox, 29 July 2024
  • Now, Google has made technical changes to rein in that surveillance power.
    Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 16 Dec. 2023
  • The antitrust lawsuits against Google underscore the government’s efforts to rein in Big Tech.
    Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2024
  • In my primary home, there are no CC&Rs or rules to rein in un-neighborly behavior.
    Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2023
  • No one seems confident that the reinforcements can rein in the violence.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Oct. 2024
  • But as China has attempted to rein in the excesses of its financial system, the central continues to run into the risk of clarifying where the line between private risk and state guarantees lies.
    Drew Bernstein, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024

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