RESTRICT in a Sentence

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61 example sentences for RESTRICT, such as:
1. The use of it had to be restricted.
2. Her vision is restricted in one eye.
3. The drug has only a restricted commercial use.
4. There is restricted access to this information.
5. Access to the club is restricted to members only.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of RESTRICT
restrict
 v.  place limits on (extent or access)
 v.  make more specific
Classic Sentence: (19 in 2 pages)
1  For our part, we reserve to the word its ancient and precise, circumscribed and determined significance, and we restrict slang to slang.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—ORIGIN
2  Their form was restricted, but their liberty was great.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE YEAR 1817
3  It will be understood that the word inn-keeper is here employed in a restricted sense, and does not extend to an entire class.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—TWO COMPLETE PORTRAITS
4  The use of it had to be restricted.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II—THE OBEDIENCE OF MARTIN VERGA
5  And Combeferre restricted himself to replying with a grave smile.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
6  Nevertheless the opinion of Tacitus, duly restricted and not understood as applying to a case like that of Appius, merits approval.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX.
7  The alternative thus offered the nation was not between full and restricted Negro suffrage; else every sensible man, black and white, would easily have chosen the latter.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
8  In the most cultured sections and cities of the South the Negroes are a segregated servile caste, with restricted rights and privileges.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In II
9  Lily had abundant energy of her own, but it was restricted by the necessity of adapting herself to her aunt's habits.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3
10  In those days, the captain's authority was restricted to the navigation and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
11  For the last year and a half I have not had a hand in anything dishonourable, amid all that time I have been struggling in most restricted circumstances.
A Doll's House By Henrik Ibsen
Context  Highlight   In ACT II
12  She then peeped round to where I sat; so stern a neighbour was too restrictive to him, in his present fractious mood, she dared whisper no observations, nor ask of him any information.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  In the new public law courts he disliked the restrictions laid on the lawyers conducting cases.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
14  She paused before him with a smile which seemed at once designed to admit him to her familiarity, and to remind him of the restrictions it imposed.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
15  Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world--nor the restrictions of the present, neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
Example Sentence: (42 in 3 pages)
1  The professional boxers are required by law to restrict their offensive impulses to the ring.
2  If a tenant is too dangerous to be living among the free, the state and only the state should make that determination and restrict his abode.
3  She disapproved of her son's indiscriminate television viewing and decided to restrict him to educational programs.
4  This will give recommendation on the best way to advance, but not restrict thing.
5  The government is considering new laws which will further restrict people's access to firearms.
6  Villagers say the fence would restrict public access to the hills.
7  You may need to restrict access to certain files.
8  Attempts to restrict parking in the city centre have further aggravated the problem of traffic congestion.
9  It allows parents to specify time limits for specific devices in the household, restrict the applications vulnerable children can use and prevent access to pages with obscene language.
10  Access to the papers is restricted to senior management.
11  Access to the club is restricted to members only.
12  There is restricted access to this information.
13  Her vision is restricted in one eye.
14  The drug has only a restricted commercial use.
15  The government has restricted freedom of movement into and out of the country.