67 examples of inhibit in sentences

<Hab, hib> (have, hold): (1) habit, habitation, inhabitant, exhibit, prohibition, ability, debit, debt; (2) habituate, habiliment, habeas corpus, cohabit, dishabille, inhibit.

That dormant inhibited self of Dorn suddenly was no more.

In the female, the ovary, that is to say, the interstitial cells of the ovary, inhibit the growth of hair upon the face.

They push down the pan of the scale to inhibit the post-pituitary.

But it is inhibited from so doing by the placenta.

However, to counterbalance this, and to prevent the post-pituitary from overacting, the breasts secrete a hormone with an action like that of placenta, but not so strong, which tends to inhibit the ovary.

In the ability of one endocrine system to inhibit another we have the germ of the unconscious.

After the intervention of six or seven other years (for at school all play-going was inhibited)

By obscure processes her son-in-law's tone inhibited all this.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, who was in a confederacy with the barons, here interposed; strictly inhibited the king from thinking of such an attempt; and threatened him with a renewal of the sentence of excommunication, if he pretended to levy war upon any of his subjects, before the kingdom were freed from the sentence of interdict

If religion, good discipline, honest education, wholesome exhortation, fair promises, fame and loss of good name cannot inhibit and deter such, (which to chaste and sober maids cannot choose but avail much,) labour and exercise, strict diet, rigour and threats may more opportunely be used, and are able of themselves to qualify and divert an ill-disposed temperament.

There are in literature two conspicuous examples of the blind-alley themetwo famous plays, wherein two heroines are placed in somewhat similar dilemmas, which merely paralyse our sympathies and inhibit our moral judgment.

All that training and education can do is to inhibit under ordinary conditions certain undesirable tendencies and instincts and to strengthen through exercise those that are desirable; and even then when a crisis comes, the old, hereditary instinct is apt to break through its thin veneer and actually frighten the individual at the unexpected strength it reveals.

But notwithstanding the strength and tenacity of instincts, training and education may inhibit some of them and so transform others into useful habits that for most purposes in life their subjugation seems complete.

If the movement results in pain or even discomfort, or if the end reached is not satisfactory, the movement will be inhibited or discontinued and probably will not be attempted the second time.

Nothing else is more powerful than religious conviction and sentiment to reinforce good conduct and to inhibit wrong action.

If they wish to inhibit such importation, they may do so.

If they wish to inhibit such importation, they may do so.

The fact that these and other States have inhibited their legislatures from the exercise of this power, shows that the abolition of slavery is acknowledged to be a proper subject of legislation, when Constitutions impose no restrictions.

If they wish to inhibit such importation, they may do so.

If they wish to inhibit such importation, they may do so.

Nor does the fact that the tabu of society has actually in many cases enabled a woman to inhibit the development of her own nature, obviate the fact that she does so at great cost, even when she least understands what she does.

The extent to which social tabus and prudery may actually inhibit a woman's natural sexual development makes it possible, as we have seen, for her to marry in ignorance of what marriage implies.

"He considered that seriously and said, 'I didn't know about Claudia Jones; she may inhibit even the silence and the other ingredient.

"Godly men who hold the faith as I do are inhibited by the powers that be from teaching in schools.

67 examples of  inhibit  in sentences