Examples of restrained in a Sentence
She was admired for her restrained behavior.
a restrained style of architecture
The room was decorated with restrained colors.
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In DaCosta’s hands, Ibsen’s emotionally extreme but tonally restrained play becomes a spectacular, flamboyant melodrama, with physical action as intense as the characters’ inner worlds.
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
That would include gun-violence restraining orders and domestic violence protective orders, which are among several kinds of orders that compel a restrained person to surrender firearms.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Featuring four deliciously unusual frames cast in robust Takiron acetate, which comes from Osaka, the collection is evocative of a certain House of Lords flair—restrained but curiously powerful.
—Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025
This would make the policy more fiscally restrained but less universal.
—Christopher Robertson, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
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Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Oct. 2025
That would include gun-violence restraining orders and domestic violence protective orders, which are among several kinds of orders that compel a restrained person to surrender firearms.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
Featuring four deliciously unusual frames cast in robust Takiron acetate, which comes from Osaka, the collection is evocative of a certain House of Lords flair—restrained but curiously powerful.
—Air Mail, 11 Oct. 2025
This would make the policy more fiscally restrained but less universal.
—Christopher Robertson, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for restrained
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“Restrained.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/restrained. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.
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