"You have my thanks for restraining yourself on that other matter."

As I tried to leave him, he put a large, restraining hand on my arm.

She became active recently in an environmental group seeking to restrain development on the island.

She restrained him with a small warm hand on his naked chest.

Indeed, almost any arbitration case could be restrained on those grounds.

So Congress has agreed to put a restrain on the immigration of physicians.

Like the others, he keeps himself restrained on the full moon and wants their curse to finally end.

There is no practical way to control the Federal deficit without restraining spending on these programs.

She made an effort to stand, but he restrained her with a hand on her shoulder.

Jack restrained him with a hand on his shoulder.