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
  • Guards restrained them with handcuffs on their feet and hands.
    — Federico Rios, New York Times, 23 Feb. 2025
  • 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 officers get Jennette on the ground and begin to restrain him.
    — Nicole Acevedo, NBC News, 22 May 2021
  • The 4-year-old had been strangled by a noose used to restrain dogs during grooming.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
  • By contrast, the wines of the Pays Nantais are restrained and traditional.
    — Sophie Friedman, AFAR Media, 3 Apr. 2025
  • At that point, and for the first time since the early Cold War, nothing will be in place to restrain the world’s major nuclear powers from a new arms race.
    — Andreas Kluth, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025

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