Example Sentences

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Anna Hopkins plays Fret, a medical researcher working to thwart a spreading plague called Coral, which causes humans to grow a restrictively stiff shell on their skin.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 2022

Mr. Musk has criticized Twitter for moderating its platform too restrictively and has said more speech should be allowed.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2022

Rural America is only doomed to decline if you define it so restrictively that it’s not allowed to grow.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2019

Other countries, like Italy, have quotation exceptions, but courts have interpreted them quite restrictively.

From Slate • Apr. 1, 2019

Therefore, if you employ restrictively the sense-hitting method, you can force the man upon whom you call to give his attention to you or to the presentation of your ideas.

From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.