How to Use limiting in a Sentence

limiting

adjective
  • As a writer, I find the drama genre to be very limiting.
  • A limiting factor on our country's economic performance is its lack of resources.
  • Winter can be the limiting time of year for deer and other wildlife.
    — Kevin Ambrose, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2017
  • His age is likely to be the main limiting factor in where his future lies.
    — Matt Woosnam, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2025
  • But the biggest limiting factor for the human pilots is the video feed.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 31 Aug. 2023
  • And this perspective is very limiting.
    — Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The most limiting factor for these stockings is acquiring brood stock.
    — Matt Wyatt, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Boyers said that many of these escape attempts are at least partly down to the fact a hamster cage can feel quite limiting.
    — Jack Beresford, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
  • The Dark Blue group needed to equal just 2 pips and with four tiles, that was pretty limiting.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • One advantageous or limiting trait is not all that affects cat coat color.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian, 18 Dec. 2019
  • One of the most limiting factors to good grouse habitat is the availability of winter food.
    — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Her interpretation of what items were too personal was far more limiting than mine.
    — Lois Fenton, Arkansas Online, 28 Mar. 2021
  • But Hayes insists that Olds’s work is too distinctive to be contained by such a limiting term.
    — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2022
  • This was not the case with the Magic Leap 1, which had a very limiting field-of-view and buggy controller.
    — Anshel Sag, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • Our pros love how this innovative jacket stayed warm without feeling bulky or limiting range of motion.
    — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 12 Aug. 2022
  • This can be very limiting and vitriolic in a way that shuts down conversation when things get complicated.
    — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, 24 Apr. 2018
  • In fact, staffing may be one of the most limiting factors in a unicorn’s ultimate success if not properly addressed.
    — Pete Wilkins, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Of course, range is always the limiting issue with electric vehicles of any sort, and the RR is no different.
    — Chuck Squatriglia, WIRED, 29 July 2010
  • The critical limiting factor for returning home is access to fuel for the return journey.
    — Saurav Shroff, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Stamina is your biggest limiting factor in combat, so having as much as possible and being able to recover it quickly is a must.
    — Kristan Hawkins, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The iPhone's lack of optical zoom is a serious limiting factor, while the brightness of the moon is another challenge.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2025
  • The very limiting portrayals of gender which have sustained the advertising industry for well over a century no longer resonate with our social world.
    — Kaitlyn Tiffany, Vox, 18 June 2019
  • Those more limiting phrases are indeed a red flag—especially given that Rosenstein didn’t once use the word independent in his answer.
    — Leon Neyfakh, Slate Magazine, 8 Mar. 2017
  • Tan and his co-founder had essentially just tasked themselves with building new infrastructure for the Malaysian taxi system, but money was a big limiting factor.
    — Ernestine Siu, CNBC, 7 Oct. 2024
  • The most limiting factor are the pods themselves, which are about the size of a small sedan and most often carried in pairs on the bed of a hulking three-axle transport, with another two towed behind on an attached trailer.
    — Popular Mechanics, 31 Mar. 2023
  • But, in many ways, Joyce's definition of feminism is both limiting and pretty contradictory.
    — Katherine Singh, refinery29.com, 17 Mar. 2022
  • Drawbacks include the obvious limiting factor of customization.
    — Bankim Chandra, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
  • Finally, the permit process has been a big limiting factor in expediting CCS deployment.
    — Soyoung Oh, The Conversation, 11 May 2023
  • Many Latino writers feel stuck — and begin to stagnate — in entry-level roles and a pipeline of diversity initiatives that can feel more limiting than liberating.
    — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2021
  • Toxic masculinity is, after all, a limiting and regressive stranglehold for everyone.
    — Maggie Zhou, refinery29.com, 11 Nov. 2021

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