"restrain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Restraining him by physical means was out of the question.
- He was able to restrain himself only by a supreme effort.
- Maybe he had been not hungry, or restrained by the fact there were four of us.
- A great longing took possession of her to step forward and speak to him, but she restrained herself almost by force.
- Her instinct was to stop often, restrained by the net, but she pushed through.
- At no point was the defendant placed in handcuffs or restrained by the police.
- She was sitting up, restrained by the belt, her head slumped against the window in the passenger's door.
- He restrained himself from actually making shooing motions, but not by much.
- For a moment she thought he meant to restrain her by force, and she was afraid.
- Miles was screaming as Tyrone and another agent restrained him by the arms.
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