How to Use restricted in a Sentence

restricted

adjective
  • You have entered a restricted area.
  • He is on a severely restricted diet.
  • Shaquille O’Neal stand at the edge of the restricted area.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 18 Feb. 2024
  • At the same event two decades ago, AR-15s were shown only in restricted areas in the back.
    Todd C. Frankel, Shawn Boburg, Josh Dawsey, Ashley Parker and Alex Horton, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • How much does a team have to pay a restricted free agent to retain their rights?
    Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Nov. 2022
  • With the Black laws, freed Black folks were very restricted to prevent them from moving to the state.
    Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • The 22-year old Zegras was a restricted free agent and was working out in New York.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Toles didn’t report to spring training last year and has since been on the club’s restricted list.
    Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2024
  • The statement said Hodge was in the restricted area under the basket and the play was reviewable in the last two minutes of the game.
    Bob Holt, Arkansas Online, 20 Jan. 2023
  • With Franco unable to perform, the team would have to place him on the restricted list and he would no longer be paid.
    Kristie Ackert, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • And as a pending restricted free agent, his future in Big D with the Stars was murky at best.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 14 Oct. 2024
  • Thrun, 23, was a restricted free agent, one of two the Sharks had entering this week.
    Curtis Pashelka, The Mercury News, 25 July 2024
  • The Bears declined to extend a restricted free agent tender to Mustipher in March.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 15 May 2023
  • The 30-year-old Moore, who was a restricted free agent this offseason, re-signed in March for two years.
    Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 24 July 2023
  • Lora spent the entire DSL season on the restricted list in 2022.
    Dallas News, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Bridges and the Hornets, who will have to decide whether to keep the restricted free agent, meet the Atlanta Hawks in a play-in game Wednesday.
    Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 12 Apr. 2022
  • The risk is losing Tyler as a restricted free agent next summer.
    Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Only three teams had allowed more shots than the Clippers in the restricted area per game.
    Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2022
  • The catcher was placed on the restricted list (meaning he didn’t get paid) and likely would not have played one of the games anyway.
    Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2022
  • Most promising is a return to form around the basket, where LaVine is shooting 66.9% in the restricted area.
    Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Hundreds of flights enter the restricted airspace around the U.S. Capitol each week.
    Amanda Pérez Pintado, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022
  • Griffith was set to be a restricted free agent but now returns to Denver for 2024.
    Parker Gabriel, The Denver Post, 14 Feb. 2024
  • Those players will be put on the restricted list and not be paid or receive service time for those games.
    Nathan Ruiz, baltimoresun.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Most of the Negev was declared a restricted military zone.
    By anat Peled, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Other relatives have made it to the restricted area and have so far been allowed to stay, Castellon said on the phone.
    NBC News, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Ayton was a restricted free agent, meaning the Suns could match any offer and pay him more than any team.
    Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 1 Oct. 2022
  • Fox, who ranks in the top 10 in both gross and net punting average, was scheduled to be a restricted free agent in March.
    Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Robertson entered the restricted area of the Capitol with the goal of obstructing the electoral vote, the jury found.
    ABC News, 11 Apr. 2022
  • My protocol for the recovery timetable for this procedure is six weeks of restricted activity to allow the body to heal from surgery.
    Aaron Portzline, The Athletic, 24 Nov. 2024
  • This can include warning off the intruder by radio, using a laser as a visual warning, calling in fighters to escort the craft out of restricted space, or shooting it down.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 25 Nov. 2024

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