How to Use self-restraint in a Sentence

self-restraint

noun

• But their whole world was self-restraint, trained from the cradle.
  — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 28 May 2024
• But only Trump knows whether his self-restraint will last.
  — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 9 May 2024
• Their lack of self-restraint would result in an explosion.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2024
• Exercise self-restraint as Venus enters Aries, or impulse-buys can come back to bite you.
  — USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
• The ambition and motives are probably spot-on, but people have more self-restraint…because of the law.
  — Keli Goff, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 May 2023
• But in Dubai, during Ramadan, self-restraint wasn’t solitary.
  — Julie Cobalt, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Feb. 2025
• The first mystery box tag team challenge proved a little too much for Krissi’s abilities as well as her self-restraint.
  — Joe Bastianich, Peoplemag, 7 June 2023
• It was found in acts of self-restraint that gave space to individuals to better their condition.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 10 June 2023
• The tense self-restraint that’s written into the character converges with that of Gladstone’s performance.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2024
• Muslim people who have reached puberty are called on to fast, a practice of self-restraint intended to bring people closer to God.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2023
• The autocrat’s Achilles’ heel is an inherent lack of credible self-restraint.
  — Adam S. Posen, Foreign Affairs, 2 Aug. 2023
• So has Swift: Her voice has matured, no longer possessing the sweet self-restraint that colored her earliest releases.
  — Maria Sherman, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• That’s especially true in the city, where piloting this variant of the best-selling Lamborghini of all time requires epic self-restraint.
  — Jeremy Taylor, Robb Report, 11 June 2023
• Emery traded in the candour of the Diaby and Bailey axis for self-restraint, with a midfield consisting of four central midfielders; safer on the ball and playing in pockets of space.
  — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 17 July 2024
• But previous presidents adhered to norms of self-restraint.
  — Charlie Savage, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
• This has been due to a combination of creative diplomacy, military deterrence, and self-restraint on the part of China, Taiwan and the United States.
  — David Sacks, Foreign Affairs, 15 June 2023
• Observers will begin fasting for the next month from sunrise to sunset and engaging in activities that challenge their self-restraint and bring them closer to God.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2024
• For once, the candidate exhibited real self-restraint by not mentioning the film.
  — Tom Brueggemann, IndieWire, 13 Oct. 2024
• Cy the Cynic defines self-restraint as the ability to resist temptation until something better comes along.
  — Frank Stewart, The Mercury News, 18 May 2024
• The sun’s alignment with Saturn encourages self-restraint, not self-deprivation.
  — USA TODAY, 12 Mar. 2025
• Does a teenager really operate such that a six-game suspension prospect as against a one-game suspension prospect (the NCS policy) tips the scale in his psyche in favor of exercising self-restraint?
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 Nov. 2024
• Planning for potential conflict—not to mention decision-making in the heat of a crisis—will be more challenging if Canberra, Tokyo, and Seoul question American intent or self-restraint.
  — Michael Green, Foreign Affairs, 19 Nov. 2024
• It is considered a period of introspection, communal prayer and a time to practice self-restraint, as explained by Britannica.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
• Altman had argued in the past that the strange structure of OpenAI, with a nonprofit overseeing a for-profit company, offered a form of self-restraint that would keep the company's technological ambitions on a safety-conscious leash.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2023
• These points support my argument that the present is a deviation from more than three decades of the preceding Chinese leadership’s relative self-restraint on economic intervention.
  — Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 3 Oct. 2023
• Unfortunately, this kind of self-restraint may be easier said than done, particularly when the market demands newer and better products.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Oct. 2023
• Thanks to Quince’s latest luggage drop, this practice in self-restraint is about to pay off, big time.
  — Michelle Baricevic, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2026
• A little self-restraint goes a long way today.
  — Usa Today, USA Today, 7 May 2026