So agitating were all these feelings that he was unable to settle down to rest or, indeed, even to restrain himself within the tent.

You can also buy special seat belts for dogs, to restrain their movements within a car.

The vehemence itself of my passion restrained it within bounds.

We also must restrain the radicals within our own ranks and make sure they don't gain the upper hand.

The poet needs a ground in popular tradition on which he may work, and which, again, may restrain his art within the due temperance.

He spoke with great difficulty, as if restraining some powerful force within himself.

Blade could scarcely restrain the excitement within him, and he coughed before speaking.

Our sentries were posted outward, they'd no orders to restrain movement within the camp.

By 1957 the council had explicitly accepted that it was obliged "to restrain the growth of population and employment potential within the city".

It restrains the circulation of each particular company within a narrower circle, and reduces their circulating notes to a smaller number.