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Six example sentences with constrain, each labelled with its topic.
A narrow doorway will constrain the photographer to one angle, and every frame from the shoot looks alike.
Photography
Rules of logic constrain what follows from a premise, leaving the arguer no freedom once the first step is granted.
Philosophy
A twelve-bar form will constrain the soloist to the same chord changes every chorus, however wild the playing gets.
Music
Sentencing guidelines constrain the judge to a narrow range, whatever she privately thinks the case deserves.
Law
A fixed exchange rate will constrain the central bank to defend the peg, even when the economy needs cheaper money.
Economics
The shot clock constrains the offense to twenty-four seconds, so the slow, patient sets of the old days are gone.
Basketball
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Found in these word lists
Found in 6 published word lists
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- Business Word List (part 2)Authoritative
- Business English Academic Word ListAuthoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- SparkNotes 1000 SAT WordsRecognized
Each source is a published word list that contains constrain. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.