Sentence examples for a rein from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a rein" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to controlling or guiding something, often in reference to horses or metaphorically in other situations.
Example: "He took the reins of the project, ensuring everything was on track."
Alternatives: "a strap" or "a control".

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The Iraqis circled, crept forward, and someone grabbed a rein and led a horse away.

'And here's how you turn,' he said, pulling a rein and drawing the narrow muzzle around.

Yes, he did, and Uncle Mo blasted off without Velazquez raising a whip or shaking a rein.

He is playing for fun, he's been given a rein and the captaincy, and he's killin' em.

He kept just as tight a rein on the children when they would leave the house with him.

Both uncle and infant resurface in Noah's thoughts over the years but, with admirable delicacy and sympathy, Mears insists that readers keep a rein on their horror.

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So they are determined to keep a tight rein on ring tones.

Whereas the loss of a rein-ring would have compromised a charioteer's ability to drive his chariot, the loss of a linchpin would have been decidedly more hazardous.

It is as if the ordinariness of the terrors and hopes that Shields depicts requires a reining-in of sentences.

A reining syndicate can have several different investment objectives, which I will describe a little later.

In these races, there was a second charioteer (a "rein-holder") while the apobates jumped out; in the catalogues with the winners both the names of the apobates and of the rein-holder are mentioned.

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