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.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONSTRAINT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
2  All constraint had vanished between the two, and they began to talk easily and simply.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
4  The stir of the pulses which his nearness always caused was increased by a slight sense of constraint.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
6  He was too much in earnest now to feel any false constraint in speaking his mind.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
7  The tinge of constraint was beginning to be more distinctly perceptible under the friendly ease of his manner.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 12
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.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. The Cabin-Table.
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.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. I AM BORN
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
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 20. STEERFORTH'S HOME
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 35. DEPRESSION
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 58. ABSENCE
15  All constraint with the master had disappeared long ago.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
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?