How to Use restrained in a Sentence

restrained

adjective

• The room was decorated with restrained colors.
• She was admired for her restrained behavior.
• And there’s a solid but restrained dose of hops on the finish.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 9 Oct. 2022
• The real music to the Fed’s ears is the sounds of the restrained holiday spending.
  — Gary Drenik, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• To that end, Biden has dabbled in a strange mix of restrained and hawkish rhetoric.
  — W. James Antle Iii, The Week, 17 Feb. 2022
• The ballad is a duet with soft harmonies and restrained pianos.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 6 Oct. 2023
• This year, Williams was more restrained but still far from happy.
  — Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Mar. 2023
• The researchers behind the new studies were more restrained.
  — Brandy Zadrozny, NBC News, 27 July 2023
• Rather than subtle and restrained, the humor is slapstick and tired.
  — Holly Thomas, CNN, 19 July 2022
• Most other times, with most other tracks, they were asked to be more restrained.
  — Ken Armstrong, ProPublica, 22 Nov. 2023
• Its restrained look fits in anywhere, and the keys provide a perfect amount of feedback.
  — Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
• The series is more restrained and (to its credit) moves far more quickly.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• And while there might have been a lot of music in the pre-production building of the score, the end result is quiet and restrained.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 9 Dec. 2022
• The Zone of Interest is an eerie and restrained study of the Holocaust that never shows a single frame of the atrocity.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2023
• But with restrained use, the pigments in these products help offset the yellowing tones that dull your shine.
  — Adam Hurly, Robb Report, 7 Apr. 2022
• The restrained man thrashed and kicked for at least two minutes before becoming limp.
  — Andy Newman, New York Times, 7 May 2023
• This year, there was no longer need for a restrained, slower-burning approach.
  — New York Times, 25 June 2022
• Made in an elegant, restrained style, The Red Rose has polished tannins and a nice splash of brightness on the finish.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023
• According to the video, neither Kueng nor Lane told Zimmerman how long Floyd was held to the ground, or how he was restrained.
  — Holly Bailey, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Feb. 2022
• Coogler’s camera gives us the feeling of a ride-along, mixed with restrained touches of nostalgia.
  — Carvell Wallace, Rolling Stone, 13 Feb. 2023
• Mbatha-Raw is so restrained and controlled as Jane that an eye roll from her can feel like an outburst.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2022
• Works by Muse Dodd and Dominique Duroseau are, by contrast, restrained and searching.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2022
• An ornate light fixture hangs above the table from a restrained tray ceiling.
  — Brianna Griff, Chron, 6 Nov. 2022
• Other mayors have been fashion plates, from the dandy style of 1920s Jimmy Walker to the restrained bow ties of David Dinkins.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• All said they had been groped, picked up, smacked, restrained or grabbed by customers without their consent.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Aug. 2022
• Elvis was so flamboyant a performer that in this movie, Luhrmann is more restrained than in his other films such as Moulin Rouge.
  — Tom Teicholz, Forbes, 29 June 2022
• The signature sounds of this track are the restrained clap sound on top of a groovy bass along with the refreshing and subtly expanding bell sound.
  — Jeff Benjamin, Billboard, 25 Mar. 2022
• Two officers then bend the restrained White over a police car to search him for weapons, his button-down blue shirt in tatters.
  — Howard Koplowitz | [e-mail], al, 10 May 2022
• Video also shows paramedics putting the restrained man, who appeared to have an arm injury, onto a stretcher.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2022
• There’s a lot of warm humor in the film, which is another way of saying Sandler is funny but restrained.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 2 June 2022

Last Updated: 6 May 2024