Example Sentences

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He had bridled one of his worst impulses.

From Washington Times • Aug. 29, 2018

The Anniston, Ala. Star, which had bridled last year at the violence with which the city met the first Freedom Riders, convicted Wallace of "reckless asininity."

From Time Magazine Archive

Already he had demanded that Gilbert write something more substantial "without the supernatural and improbable;" Gilbert had bridled, rued, agreed to. capitulate, then blithely written—The Mikado!

From Time Magazine Archive

Automatically, as a follower of Elijah Muhammad, I had bridled whenever this was said.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

She had bridled the horse and was swinging the saddle on him when I had reached the stable's shadow.

From The Unspeakable Gentleman by Marquand, John P. (John Phillips)