CONSTRAINT in a Sentence
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37 example sentences for CONSTRAINT, such as:
1. All constraint with the master had disappeared long ago.
2. The constraint that had been put upon me, was quite abandoned.
3. The government has placed tight constraints on spending this year.
4. Given the budget constraint, it was impossible to accomplish my goals.
5. After a moment Mattie seemed to be affected by the same sense of constraint.
2. The constraint that had been put upon me, was quite abandoned.
3. The government has placed tight constraints on spending this year.
4. Given the budget constraint, it was impossible to accomplish my goals.
5. After a moment Mattie seemed to be affected by the same sense of constraint.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of CONSTRAINT
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constraint
n. something that restricts or confines within prescribed bounds
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1 After a moment Mattie seemed to be affected by the same sense of constraint.
2 All constraint had vanished between the two, and they began to talk easily and simply.
3 Even the constraint which had been between them since the day of Melanie's ill-starred surprise party did not worry her, for she knew it would pass.
4 The stir of the pulses which his nearness always caused was increased by a slight sense of constraint.
5 She glanced shyly at Lily, asking in an embarrassed tone how she felt; Lily answered with the same constraint, and raised herself up to drink the tea.
6 He was too much in earnest now to feel any false constraint in speaking his mind.
7 The tinge of constraint was beginning to be more distinctly perceptible under the friendly ease of his manner.
8 In strange contrast to the hardly tolerable constraint and nameless invisible domineerings of the captain's table, was the entire care-free license and ease, the almost frantic democracy of those inferior fellows the harpooneers.
9 Mr. and Mrs. Shelby both felt annoyed and degraded by the familiar impudence of the trader, and yet both saw the absolute necessity of putting a constraint on their feelings.
10 There was a twitch of Miss Betsey's head, after each of these sentences, as if her own old wrongs were working within her, and she repressed any plainer reference to them by strong constraint.
11 The constraint that had been put upon me, was quite abandoned.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 10. I BECOME NEGLECTED, AND AM PROVIDED FOR
12 He would have risen against all constraint; but he found himself the monarch of the place, and he haughtily determined to be worthy of his station.
13 He was conscious of this, and put a constraint upon his head; but his keeping that immovable, and sitting rolling his eyes like a piece of machinery, did not mend the matter at all.
14 I could not have borne to lose the smallest portion of her sisterly affection; yet, in that betrayal, I should have set a constraint between us hitherto unknown.
15 All constraint with the master had disappeared long ago.
Example Sentence:
1 Given the budget constraint, it was impossible to accomplish my goals.
2 Thus the firm's constraint structure can affect its behaviour on pricing and its costs.
3 The constraints of politeness wouldn't allow her to say what she really thought about his cooking.
4 The government has placed tight constraints on spending this year.
5 The primary mission of industrial production managers is planning the production schedule within budgetary limitations and time constraints.
6 The methodology of ethnography is usually dependent upon the constraints operating on whom or what the researcher wants to study.
7 And how do we liberate freedom from the constraints of fear, hatred, and war?