constraint

In a sentence

Six example sentences with constraint, each labelled with its topic.

• The only real constraint was the protected oak, so the architect wrapped the reading room around the tree's canopy.

  Architecture

• Shooting at dusk imposed one constraint: any shutter speed slow enough to gather light also blurred the passing cyclists.

  Photography

• Every household budget works under the same constraint: income arrives monthly, while rent, fuel, and school fees do not.

  Economics

• The main constraint was cash, so the founders shipped a version with three features and sold it before building more.

  Startups

• The one constraint was a single hot plate, so the whole dinner had to come from one pan in sequence.

  Cooking

• Working under a strict memory constraint, the team stored each level in a few kilobytes and reused every tile.

  Gaming

Found in these word lists

Each source is a published word list that contains constraint. No exam board publishes an official GRE, GMAT or SAT list; GMAT words come from GRE lists and the Academic Word List.

More Academic words

• phenomenal
• incumbent
• stabilizing
• consultation
• clarifying
• distort
• credibility
• conform
• specification
• induce
• equivalence
• assuring