How to Use restrain in a Sentence

restrain

verb

• He was restrained and placed in a holding cell.
• He could not restrain the dog from attacking.
• He could barely restrain his anger.
• He could restrain himself no longer.
• The manufacturer took measures to restrain costs.
• Hospital orderlies needed to restrain the patient.
• As those on set prepared to shoot the scene, the wolves had to be restrained from Hoult.
  — Rachel Raposas, People.com, 25 Dec. 2024
• Another man then seems to restrain the man in the blue shirt.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 2022
• Kueng helped restrain Floyd by kneeling on his back, and Lane held the feet of the 46-year-old Black man.
  — Celina Tebor, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2022
• There are all these ideas of how to restrain the power of the president.
  — Abc News, ABC News, 9 May 2024
• Lane and Kueng helped to restrain Floyd, who was handcuffed.
  — Amy Forliti and Steve Karnowski, USA TODAY, 18 May 2022
• Tupac scrambled to get to the man behind the desk, but someone on the tour restrained him.
  — Staci Robinson, Rolling Stone, 4 Nov. 2023
• Her phone falls out of her hands as the officer tries to restrain her.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 30 Aug. 2021
• Dyker grabs her arm and struggles to restrain her, the video shows.
  — Megan Crepeau, Chicago Tribune, 13 June 2022
• He was grabbed by two deputies who restrained his arms and handcuffed him.
  — Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2024
• More officers were called to restrain him at the Main Jail.
  — Eileen Kelley, sun-sentinel.com, 11 July 2021
• In the video, officers forcibly try to restrain Nichols and Hemphill fires his Taser as Nichols gets to his feet and flees.
  — Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2023
• Park staff were able to restrain the tiger before paramedics arrived.
  — Angus Watson, CNN, 2 Sep. 2024
• The boy had been restrained inside the building by members of the public.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
• Few of them are likely to want to restrain themselves in such a fashion for very long.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 22 Dec. 2023
• Another struck him with his knee as the third helped restrain him.
  — Robert Medley, USA TODAY, 22 Aug. 2022
• The woman told Jones that she had been restrained with duct tape during the attack, and that the tape might still be at her house.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 24 July 2023
• When Alexander tried to restrain him, Hart-Ikari turned and punched him in the face about four times, the affidavit says.
  — oregonlive, 9 Feb. 2023
• To begin, the rider mounts their first horse while the holders restrain the other two.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2022
• Shortly after, the school employees restrained him at the end of the hall for about eight minutes, the footage shows.
  — Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
• The 4-year-old had been strangled by a noose used to restrain dogs during grooming.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
• One of the toughest events is the carambola, in which teams of men or women restrain an unruly cow in the rodeo ring.
  — Jes Aznar Mike Ives, New York Times, 26 June 2023
• The city was already scrambling to find ways to restrain the tourist trade before the coronavirus struck.
  — Paul Tullis, chicagotribune.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• Their ideal use case seems to be boss-crushing attacks that are best unleashed when a target is restrained or stunned.
  — Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025
• Rather than deescalate or comfort him, the lawsuit says, he was sprayed four times, including twice at close range after being restrained, despite no physical threat to staff.
  — Mark Pazniokas, Hartford Courant, 13 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 4 Mar 2025