Example Sentences

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Viktor Vyshnov, deputy head of Ukraine’s Shipping Administration, said more use of the corridor was needed to bring down insurance costs but acknowledged that the war was constraining shipowners.

From Reuters • Sep. 8, 2022

“It perhaps was constraining while she was here, she had her eyes set on bigger things.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2021

Tesla is about to launch another new car, the Model Y. In April, Musk tweeted that Panasonic’s pace of battery production was constraining the production of the Model 3.

From The Verge • Jun. 25, 2019

They noted the strengthening Australian dollar was constraining inflation but also weighing on output and employment.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2017

He did not know that the mother-heart in her was yearning over him with a tenderness almost too powerful to be resisted, and that his weakness was constraining her as his strength had never done.

From The Farringdons by Fowler, Ellen Thorneycroft