Example Sentences

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It is both inhibitive to their own sides and encouraging to their opponents.

From New York Times • Jan. 27, 2024

As an Australian expat, she also chafed at English culture, which she considered overly inhibitive.

From Washington Post • Oct. 19, 2022

"This type of repair entails removing loose concrete overhead, treating steel rebar with rust inhibitive coating and patching back with repair mortar. Also included in the garage will be urethane foam injection in ceiling cracks."

From Fox News • Jul. 13, 2021

I have often wished for a different word, one that implies profound, often inhibitive, change, but precludes the violence inherent in “trauma.”

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2021

Such pigments are of the inhibitive type, and their action is to check or retard the solution pressure of the iron.

From Paint Technology and Tests by Gardner, Henry A.