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Six example sentences with constraining, each labelled with its topic.
The new tournament rules felt constraining to players who had built their whole strategy around unlimited item swaps.
Gaming
A narrow lot and a strict height limit were constraining, so the studio stacked living space above the garage.
Architecture
Wearing a brace after surgery was constraining enough that she swapped her running plan for slow pool laps.
Fitness
Young composers often find the strict rules of counterpoint constraining, though the masters wrote freely inside them.
Music
The founders found the investor's veto over hiring so constraining that they bought back his shares within a year.
Startups
The gallery's rule that every canvas fit through a standard door felt constraining to a painter who worked at mural scale.
Art
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