restriction

In a sentence

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

• The council added one restriction to the permit: no deliveries before seven, which settled the complaints about the loading dock.

  Politics

• The tournament imposes one restriction on deck building: no card may appear more than twice in any sixty-card list.

  Gaming

• The only restriction in the competition is the pantry list, and anything not on that shelf cannot enter the kitchen.

  Cooking

• The height restriction on the square keeps every new building below the line of the cathedral's roof.

  Architecture

• Her only dietary restriction after surgery was no raw vegetables for a month, which she found harder than expected.

  Medicine

• The fund's one restriction is that no single holding may ever exceed five percent of the portfolio.

  Finance

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