How to Use self-restraint in a Sentence

self-restraint

noun

• The ambition and motives are probably spot-on, but people have more self-restraint…because of the law.
  — Keli Goff, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• The first mystery box tag team challenge proved a little too much for Krissi’s abilities as well as her self-restraint.
  — Joe Bastianich, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
• It was found in acts of self-restraint that gave space to individuals to better their condition.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
• The tense self-restraint that’s written into the character converges with that of Gladstone’s performance.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
• Muslim people who have reached puberty are called on to fast, a practice of self-restraint intended to bring people closer to God.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• The autocrat’s Achilles’ heel is an inherent lack of credible self-restraint.
  — Adam S. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2023
• So has Swift: Her voice has matured, no longer possessing the sweet self-restraint that colored her earliest releases.
  — Maria Sherman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• That’s especially true in the city, where piloting this variant of the best-selling Lamborghini of all time requires epic self-restraint.
  — Jeremy Taylor, Robb Report, 11 June 2023
• This has been due to a combination of creative diplomacy, military deterrence, and self-restraint on the part of China, Taiwan and the United States.
  — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2023
• Observers will begin fasting for the next month from sunrise to sunset and engaging in activities that challenge their self-restraint and bring them closer to God.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
• Altman had argued in the past that the strange structure of OpenAI, with a nonprofit overseeing a for-profit company, offered a form of self-restraint that would keep the company's technological ambitions on a safety-conscious leash.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2023
• These points support my argument that the present is a deviation from more than three decades of the preceding Chinese leadership’s relative self-restraint on economic intervention.
  — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2023
• Unfortunately, this kind of self-restraint may be easier said than done, particularly when the market demands newer and better products.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024