Sentence examples for strove to contain from inspiring English sources

More broadly, both Harry Truman and Eisenhower strove to contain Communism without committing troops to combat, relying instead on covert operations, enhancing America's nuclear retaliatory threat and strengthening Western economies.

A firewall to contain Sanders?

He became harder to contain.

We tried to contain him".

"We've got to contain those guys.

But fires are hard to contain.

The opposition benches struggled to contain themselves.

Hughes tried to contain the damage.

That served to contain the decline".

I struggled to contain my panic.

But they need to contain a charge.