Sentence examples for hard to keep in check from inspiring English sources

It has a thriving consumer economy which it is finding hard to keep in check.

"His is a different type of sailor," he said, "hard to keep in check".

On their own albums, the Wondermints tend towards a wearisome brand of wackiness, which must have been hard to keep in check, given the nature of Smile's music.

Joey Berglund, son of Walter and the infamous Patty, is intriguing: he has an extremely tender heart that he tries so hard to keep in check, and his capacity for self-evaluation is affecting, especially for someone of college age.

The Red Sox they'd come and cheer for often didn't have a real shot at a pennant — neither did the Yankees, some years — but your hopes for a sudden great season for them were almost brighter and sharper because of that, and your thoughts about what that could be like hard to keep in check.

The Red Sox they'd come and cheer for often didn't have a real shot at a pennant neither did the Yankees, some years but your hopes for a sudden great season for them were almost brighter and sharper because of that, and your thoughts about what that could be like hard to keep in check.

But the excitement around this season's team is becoming harder and harder to keep in check.

If you didn't sleep much the night before, the tears are likely to flow more easily as your feelings will be harder to keep in check and exhaustion can lead you to breaking point.

Your colleagues are reacting and processing this week's events in different ways, which may be more or less apparent and harder or easier to keep in check as they go about their daily work.

Injuries on defense, especially to cornerbacks Nathan Vasher and Charles Tillman, could make it hard to keep Jon Kitna in check.

It is sometimes hard to ignore this power, lean critically to a certain ubiquity of absurdity -- but nonetheless, it can be hard to keep power in check.