constrain

In a sentence

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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