How to Use restriction in a Sentence

restriction

noun
  • Building in that area came with some restrictions.
  • They will lift export restrictions.
  • They placed restrictions on smoking indoors.
  • The key thing to keep in mind is that DraftKings has not placed an odds restriction on this bet.
    — Xl Media, cleveland, 22 Mar. 2022
  • The government hopes to lift the restriction in March or April, when the weather is warmer.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 Jan. 2023
  • One of the owners, Avi Thakar, assured the board an age restriction wouldn’t hurt that store.
    — Jesse Wright, Chicago Tribune, 11 Apr. 2025
  • But on a recent summer evening, the air filled with the sound of bleating goats and the scent of fried dough, there were few restrictions.
    — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Pause, then rotate your leg side-to-side on the roller, to help relieve some of the muscle restriction.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The videos now have a prompt at the bottom noting the sound was removed due to copyright restrictions.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The defendants have also appealed the restriction of their speech to the Ohio Supreme Court.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 17 Feb. 2022
  • That ban ended this week, but new restrictions are in place.
    — Hallie Golden, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
  • The platform offers no way for users to dispute the restriction.
    — Amanda Seitz, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2022
  • Local agencies who fail to meet the restriction can be fined up to $2,000 per acre foot of water.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 2 June 2022
  • The next most-common outcome, in 17% of challenges, was for a book to be placed under some form of restriction.
    — Hannah Natanson The Washington Post, arkansasonline.com, 24 Dec. 2023
  • So the order seeks to extend restrictions to the rest of the country using the weight of the executive branch.
    — Elana Redfield, The Conversation, 30 Jan. 2025
  • At least three of Guangzhou’s 11 districts have been put under some sort of restriction.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 11 Nov. 2022
  • The government has called on Mehta to impose restrictions for a decade.
    — Paresh Dave, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2024
  • Deadline hears there may still be some legal restrictions on Bond talk as of yet.
    — Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
  • Already on a minute restriction, Thompson had just two points on 1-of-8 shooting at the time.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
  • But Belden said that restriction has since been lifted.
    — Bailey Loosemore, The Courier-Journal, 25 Apr. 2022
  • Hodges was put on a minutes restriction when the Bulldogs played at Georgetown, but that was lifted for the past two games.
    — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Even without the timing restriction of a World Cup or Olympic Games next year, the schedule headaches likely won’t go away.
    — Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2022
  • The designation also meant there would be tight restrictions on what could be built on the land.
    — Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 20 Mar. 2025
  • There is no restriction on bystanders’ watching, and some of them take videos that end up online.
    — The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Details of the restrictions are also available at this link.
    — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
  • Eleven other crew members were freed on bail and with restrictions.
    — Reuters, CNN, 27 June 2024
  • Still, some transgender adults in the state say they have been dropped from their doctors due to the new restrictions and requirements.
    — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 11 June 2023
  • The first forbids the restriction or limitation of a mother’s right to breastfeed in places that are open to the public.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 27 Aug. 2022
  • The list reportedly includes Red, Orange and Yellow tiers, with varying levels of restrictions.
    — Melanie Anzidei, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
  • Moon Alert: There are no restrictions to shopping or important decisions today.
    — Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 12 Apr. 2025

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