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.
• Another man then seems to restrain the man in the blue shirt.
  — Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 20 Nov. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Throughout the video, the woman keeps pushing back whenever the flight crew tries to restrain her.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 25 Nov. 2023
• The two officers then attempt to restrain the man in a gravel area alongside the curb near the sidewalk.
  — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 Aug. 2022
• The heart rats of all the spider species stayed high the whole time they were restrained, never returning to a calm resting rate.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 12 Aug. 2024
• My modus operandi is to restrain myself enough in the dining room to take home leftovers.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 13 May 2022
• Sam’s portrayal of the role in the trailer is restrained and suits the situation at hand.
  — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• Hospital staff are in the room watching or helping to restrain him.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Laura Vozzella and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2023
• Harvey would then warn the guard to check on Colvin — afterward, launching a sneak attack to restrain the deputy and take her keys.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 17 June 2022
• Working together to restrain the North Korean regime is the best way to achieve it.
  — Sungmin Cho, Foreign Affairs, 12 Nov. 2024
• The coroner found evidence galore that John had been forcibly restrained.
  — Charlie Mason, TVLine, 24 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Dec 2024