Synonym: in restraint, under control. Similar words: rain check, hold in check, unchecked, check, check-up, check-out, check out, check off. Meaning: adv. unable to act freely.
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1. It is vital that inflation is kept in check.
2. You must learn to keep your emotions in check.
3. You need to keep your temper in check!
4. The epidemic was held in check by widespread vaccination.
5. Maggie managed to keep her temper in check.
6. Your king is in check from my knight.
7. He made an effort to hold himself in check.
8. We must find ways of keeping our expenditure in check.
9. There, you're in check.
10. We've kept the disease in check for a year now.
11. That temper of yours needs keeping in check.
12. His own temper rose, but he held it in check.
13. Y., in leading roles, with Gingrich keeping extremists in check.
14. These guidelines keep hawa in check, for when the community is threatened, it can drag the ship down into chaos.
15. Aphids are kept in check by beetle banks and shelter strips of willow to harbour natural predators.
16. More trade and stronger competition will keep prices in check.
17. Life on Earth will become unsustainable unless population growth is held in check.
18. Mulch plants each spring with straw to conserve moisture and keep weeds in check.
19. Communism was the powerful outside challenger that held ethnic forces in check elsewhere.
20. They may have problems, however, keeping skippers and crews in check.
21. George Wigg was a remarkable man but very difficult to keep in check.
22. Peg sat rigid her basket on her lap, knitting forgotten, keeping in check the smouldering anger inside her.
23. It was rookie coach, Ray Rhodes, who got the most credit for keeping the team in check.
24. The politics of deference - the rich man in his castle the poor man at his gate - held change in check.
25. How often have I begged you to keep that temper of yours in check.sentencedict.com
26. Jody is grim on the sidelines, but during a time-out, she holds herself in check.
27. Krieger rarely gets a strike while narrating his lessons, which is great: His ego is in check.
28. What is new is that the controls which held this population in check no longer exist.
29. There were times in the second debate when Soft Al tried to hold Hard Al in check.
30. Outdated laws and regulations are failing to keep crime on the Internet in check.
More similar words: rain check, hold in check, unchecked, check, check-up, check-out, check out, check off, recheck, check-in, checkup, checked, check up, checkout, check in, checking, bank check, check book, checkered, checkroom, check into, checkmate, checkbook, check up on, checkpoint, crosscheck, spell check, cash a check, double check, double-check.