How to Use within limits in a Sentence

within limits

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  • Whistleblowers have a right, within limits, to be wrong.
    — Dan Eaton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2025
  • Fire in living landscapes had evolved with checks and balances that could, within limits, be stretched.
    — Stephen Pyne, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Qatari officials have vowed to be friendly hosts, within limits.
    — John Powers, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Nov. 2022
  • That approach works pretty well (within limits) for hard workouts.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 28 May 2022
  • Voltage needs to remain within limits for an electrical grid to work.
    — Julia Simon, NPR, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Stretching through such pain is OK, says Frost, within limits.
    — Daryl Austin, USA TODAY, 13 May 2023
  • The impulse to care first for one’s own people can be morally justified but only within limits.
    — Lawrence O. Gostin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Jan. 2021
  • Cubans were also permitted for the first time in decades to own their own land, grow food and sell it at markets, setting their own prices within limits.
    — Joseph J. Gonzalez, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2025
  • This group gets more flexibility, but still within limits.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Disaffected workers have always found ways to stick it to the Man, within limits.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Early on, some banned the technology outright, while others have tried to allow it within limits.
    — Ina Fried, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
  • Haight advocates for stress as necessary and useful (in age-appropriate ways, and within limits) for all of us.
    — Chris Westfall, Forbes, 22 Sep. 2024
  • Sure, economists have models, and those models give us insight into what is likely to happen — within limits.
    — Wesley Davenport, National Review, 13 Aug. 2024
  • Instead of writing off the cost of certain assets over several years, businesses can generally deduct the full cost upfront, within limits.
    — Forbes Money Team, Forbes.com, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The history of every medium is one of working within limits, without compromising vision.
    — Ira Belsky, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Still, for those seeking pets with simpler daily routines, Barrett acknowledged that betta fish and guinea pigs can be good alternatives—within limits.
    — Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 July 2025
  • Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi last week said his country is trying to help – within limits.
    — Abbas Al Lawati, CNN, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Many movies aren’t endowed with any such extra dimension of subjectivity and are perfectly enjoyable, within limits.
    — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The land use processes are intended to regulate, within limits, the ability of owners to develop their properties.
    — Christian Browne, New York Daily News, 5 Apr. 2024
  • Silva now faces a similar test a few miles down the road — to sustain Fulham’s competitiveness while operating within limits.
    — Sukhman Singh, New York Times, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The choice of an unmanned target likely signaled Tehran’s desire to escalate within limits, but its action still forced an American response.
    — Afshon Ostovar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2019
  • A day after the site was taken, Russia said radiation levels at the plant were within limits and that staff were monitoring radioactivity.
    — Fox News, 29 Mar. 2022
  • Production employees agree to let Lincoln increase or decrease their standard 40-hour workweek within limits based on customer demand.
    — Joseph Abrams, Fortune, 24 July 2023
  • Individual ministries, for example, will still be able to set their own agendas within limits, potentially fragmenting some research efforts.
    — Bydennis Normile, science.org, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Love animals – within limits The relatively small number of surviving texts that Francis himself wrote reveal his thoughts about the myriad creatures around him.
    — Mary Dzon, The Conversation, 3 Oct. 2023
  • Handheld weather meters ensure wind speed, temperature, and humidity fall within limits under plans written beforehand.
    — James Pollard, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Dec. 2023
  • Using, possessing and growing marijuana for personal use, within limits, became legal last August.
    — Steve Karnowski, Quartz, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Democracy demands effort and sacrifice, as well as freedom within limits, especially in a multifarious society.
    — Joe Klein, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Political parties are typically restricted or absent, and legislative institutions operate within limits set by the executive.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Mar. 2026
  • The pivot began with the Reciprocal Trade Agreement Act of 1934, which let presidents adjust rates within limits via executive agreements.
    — Bedassa Tadesse, The Conversation, 3 Nov. 2025

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