inhibited

In a sentence

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

• Too inhibited to speak in seminars, she wrote brilliant papers nobody in the room ever heard her defend.

  Psychology

• The singer sounded inhibited on the first take, so the producer dimmed the lights and cleared the booth.

  Music

• Children pose stiff and inhibited under studio lights, which is why he shoots them in their own backyard.

  Photography

• Bacterial growth was visibly inhibited near the mold, leaving a clear ring where nothing would grow.

  Science

• Her stride looked inhibited after the injury, short and careful, as though the hamstring might tear again at any step.

  Fitness

• Junior staff felt inhibited in meetings with the founder present, so the best ideas arrived by email afterward.

  Startups

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

• accompaniment
• confines
• lecturing
• subordinate
• credible
• profound
• focussed
• diminish
• labored
• erode
• panelled
• unambiguous