Sentence examples for restrained herself from inspiring English sources

This time, she restrained herself.

When Mallam Sile related this to his wife, she restrained herself from telling him the truth.

Mr. Olar asked her, "Did you come here when you were young?" Ms. Todea bent down to pick up a stone, but restrained herself.

One presumes Taylor somehow restrained herself, and the result of their collaboration reads like a brainy thriller in which the reader is both victim and perpetrator.

In a 1945 letter to a colleague at Harvard Medical School, Lee said that she was "constantly tempted to add more clues and details" but that she restrained herself so that the Nutshells wouldn't get too "gadgety".

"I used to get so incensed," says Ms. Salzman, adding that she restrained herself from informing on the earth science scofflaw only because she did not want to be "a rat".

At Au Bar," she adds, unable to restrain herself.

-- she cannot restrain herself from acting out her defiance.

She gripped the armrests of her chair as though restraining herself.

By restraining herself and making Eileen sympathetic, she gives "The Perfect Family" a seed of humanity.

She is genuinely restrained: she cannot restrain herself from showing self-restraint in virtually every case that comes before her.