Example Sentences

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Restrictive and unrestrictive clauses were mostly interchangeable for the rest of us.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 20, 2025

Gun rights advocates have for years held up Maine as an example of a place with unrestrictive gun laws and little violent crime.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 26, 2023

Sweden adopted an unrestrictive approach, offering guidelines to its citizens but leaving compliance up to them.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2020

Those health agencies are generally required to be as unrestrictive as possible when issuing those orders.

From Time • Oct. 18, 2014

However desirable it may seem to confine who and which to unrestrictive clauses, they are not confined to them in actual practice.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd