How to Use rein in a Sentence

rein

1 of 2 noun

• He has people working for him, but he has a tight rein on every part of the process.
• This year, the have turned the reins over to the young folks.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Jan. 2026
• Still, the Dodgers weren’t ready to hand the reins over to him.
  — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2026
• These include the long rein, the airs above the ground and the quadrille.
  — Sheryl Devore, chicagotribune.com, 16 June 2021
• Guthrie kept a tight rein on the proceedings.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 26 Feb. 2026
• Abel took over the reins from Buffett at the start of the year.
  — Yun Li, CNBC, 22 Mar. 2026
• On the labor side, too, fresh leaders took the reins.
  — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 10 June 2026
• And there appear to be no reins, either.
  — Shelby Talcott, semafor.com, 3 Sep. 2025
• One of them might grab the reins, and everything could be fine.
  — Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
• The cabin hadn’t changed, but the reins had been loosened.
  — Joe Soucheray, Twin Cities, 30 May 2026
• As the stylebook reminds us, seize the reins, give free rein to, put a rein on.
  — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
• Thanks for taking the reins while Joe is golfing.
  — Sean Joseph Outkick, FOXNews.com, 26 June 2026
• The Bulls are a losing team that’s not giving him the reins.
  — Fred Katz, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
• The kids take the tightening reins as a threat to their freedom.
  — Katie Grant, Parents, 16 Dec. 2025
• County leaders have called for the state to take the reins of the program.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• Payton wants to give full rein to his quarterbacks.
  — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 16 Jan. 2026
• An agent on horseback leans over, grabbing a man by the shirt as a rein dangles.
  — Hamed Aleazizstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2022
• John Straley takes us on a wild ride, but with the reins held firmly in his able hands.
  — Nancy Lord, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2020
• In this event, the cowboy uses a saddle and holds onto a rein with one hand.
  — Tess Demeyer, Dallas News, 2 Dec. 2020
• March 21 – April 19 Aries, grab the reins and set the pace!
  — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
• The 2-year-old slowed to a walk and Camacho grabbed the reins with his hands.
  — Bill Center, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2023
• The reins were loosened and the horse began to gallop and flare its nostrils.
  — Amy Lawrence, New York Times, 31 May 2026
• What does the change mean for his son taking over the reins of the Murdoch empire?
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Sep. 2023
• To manage the humidity in your home, take hold of the reins on the air that comes and goes.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 24 May 2026
• To manage the humidity in your home, take hold of the reins on the air that comes and goes.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 13 May 2026
• To manage the humidity in your home, take hold of the reins on the air that comes and goes.
  — Hallie Milstein, Southern Living, 20 Feb. 2026
• Once the cow is selected and cut from the herd, riders are no longer allowed to use the reins.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Mar. 2026
• Some states with existing laws are tightening the reins.
  — Alexis Kayser, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025
• Whether the pending lawsuits can put reins on AI remains to be seen.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
• Former top boss Lee Feldman held the reins for seven years.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2026

rein

2 of 2 verb

• Resist the urge to rein them in.
  — Liz Teran, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2025
• Most of the time, the parents try to rein the behavior back in.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 31 Oct. 2023
• With their cloud-nine highs and rock-bottom lows, who or what can rein in the passions of teenagers in love?
  — Guillermo Perez, Sun Sentinel, 20 Oct. 2022
• In an effort to rein in inflation, the Fed raised rates six times.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2022
• The officials themselves may resist a chair who tries to rein them in.
  — Steve Liesman,matt Peterson, CNBC, 27 Mar. 2026
• Pesina was Tobias’ friend, but talking to him had done nothing to rein him in.
  — David L. Craddock, Ars Technica, 8 Oct. 2022
• And the 74-year-old businessman shows no signs of reining it in.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 1 June 2023
• But the November election could rein in some of the largest water users.
  — Jake Frederico, The Arizona Republic, 19 Oct. 2022
• Take advantage of that before people start to rein in their spending.
  — Jon Picoult, Forbes, 7 June 2022
• These were rather subtle gestures in the grand scheme of things from a frontman who refuses to rein it in.
  — Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2022
• Others might feel the need to rein themselves in and play the straight woman to anchor a cast of eccentrics.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 17 May 2023
• The state of Missouri, where the most puppy mills are, has been unwilling to rein it in.
  — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 16 Feb. 2023
• One local lawmaker recently filed a bill to rein them in.
  — Fred Schulte, Miami Herald, 30 Dec. 2025
• Anyone who’s drinking hot pumpkin spice lattes in a chunky sweater may need to rein it in for a little while.
  — Briana Waxman, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
• And the active roll bars and Bilstein adaptive dampers rein-in body roll and keep things level.
  — Howard Walker, Robb Report, 26 Apr. 2022
• Some local and state lawmakers are even attempting to rein the agency in.
  — Lautaro Grinspan, AJC.com, 9 Feb. 2026
• As a result, investors are urging Tesla’s board to rein Musk in.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 24 Apr. 2023
• In other words, the court may rein in Big Tech in a way Congress hasn’t chosen to.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2022
• Make an effort to rein yourself in before that becomes necessary.
  — Chicago Tribune, 8 Aug. 2022
• Sparking a bipartisan rebuke to rein him in.
  — ABC News, 11 Jan. 2026
• LinkedIn became the latest tech company to lay off employees to rein back costs.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 9 May 2023
• In other words, do exactly the opposite of what’s needed to rein the Fed in.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 8 Feb. 2026
• But advertisers, users and perhaps lenders may rein him in if Congress does not first tighten the rules.
  — Alexandra Olson and Maryclaire Dale, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 Nov. 2022
• But after misjudging inflation for most of last year, the Fed’s plan to rein it back in could backfire.
  — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2022
• In its epic battle to rein in inflation, the Fed has raised its benchmark interest rate five times this year.
  — Paul Wiseman, Chicago Tribune, 7 Oct. 2022
• If anything, Dobeš has reined himself in since coming to the NHL.
  — Jesse Granger, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• And then trying to find the physicality of that, and how far to push it, and how far to rein it in, and that balance, that sort of tightrope.
  — Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 6 May 2026
• In fact, the only thing that national leadership has ever done for the rest of the gang is to sort of rein them in when the optics look bad.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2022
• Food justice and worker advocates want to see action taken to rein in the industry.
  — Errol Schweizer, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• For others, the arrests seemed like a necessary step to rein in county leaders who many believed had been skirting the rules.
  — New York Times, 2 Aug. 2022