How to Use stricture in a Sentence

stricture

noun
  • Who but a child would accept the strictures of life with Elvis?
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
  • With the strictures of what, say, Comcast has on them, right?
    — Recode Staff, Recode, 15 June 2018
  • But going back this time, under these kinds of strictures, was weird.
    — Meredith Blake, chicagotribune.com, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Worse still, his father has imposed a firm stricture on his visit.
    — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
  • The south has long been readier than the north to agitate against the strictures of caste.
    — The Economist, 21 June 2019
  • The structures and strictures of society, the rules of wrong and right, lies and truth?
    — William Giraldi, Philly.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • The budget bill, on the other hand, includes no such strictures.
    — oregonlive, 21 June 2023
  • Does this stricture extend to wearing white shirts under suits?
    — Judith Martin, Sun Sentinel, 6 June 2026
  • Those who break such strictures are smitten (or whacked with fines of up to 4% of global turnover).
    — The Economist, 23 Apr. 2020
  • And some survivors are still bound by the strictures of NDAs.
    — Maureen Ryan, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
  • But if the convention ignores such strictures, there might be no way to enforce them.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The same strictures also applied to the film version of the novel.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Ramírez, who was supposed to be studying chemistry and physics, ignored such strictures.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Here was a genre that was often angry, often a protest—the use of loops could evoke the strictures a rapper raged against.
    — Jaron Lanier, The New Yorker, 22 July 2023
  • But her strictures are meant as much for diffident voters as for the president.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In view of those strictures, the EU deal that emerged last Friday was vague and full of holes.
    — Simon Nixon, WSJ, 2 July 2018
  • Needless to say, within months of opening and with bad word of mouth building, such strictures were abolished.
    — Mark Ellwood, Robb Report, 11 Aug. 2024
  • Even with Rome's new policies, the capital has a long way to go to match Venice's strictures.
    — Louis Cheslaw, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Aug. 2019
  • But Zalmy has begun to chafe at the strictures of Hasidic Judaism.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Removing the old customs and strictures led not to a flowering of virtue but to mass outbreaks of revenge.
    — Paul Kingsnorth, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
  • If oil prices rise further, Mr Hamm’s strictures on discipline may again be ignored.
    — The Economist, 10 May 2018
  • The event has created sparks within golf for upending the traditions and strictures of how the game is played.
    — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Charles seems to have accepted this judgment and the stricture on which it was based, more or less unquestioningly.
    — Zoë Heller, The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
  • Jo, being a writer as well as a runaway from the strictures of womanhood, is a bit of an avatar for Alcott.
    — Bonnie Tsui, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026
  • The stricture against direct financing has held up even through a series of crises when central bankers did in fact buy plenty of public debt.
    — Ben Holland, Bloomberg.com, 28 Apr. 2020
  • That's no longer the case, and new trucks keep pushing past the old strictures that said truck buyers are strictly traditionalist.
    — Ezra Dyer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Even within these strictures—and even while caring for 11 children—Ruysch excelled.
    — Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Other causes may include urinary stones, strictures, blood clots and infections that can block the outlet.
    — Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Though complex, this would keep Britain close to many economic rules and strictures of its biggest trading partner.
    — Stephen Castle, New York Times, 3 June 2018
  • Sometimes the Arabic comes alive in the form of a bird or mammal, just abstract enough to escape the stricture on graven images.
    — Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024

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