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Example sentences for "inhibit"

Lexicographically close words:
inherited; inheriting; inheritor; inheritors; inherits; inhibited; inhibiting; inhibition; inhibitions; inhibitive
  1. Quality considerations, however, did not inhibit an attempt to market a Romanian-built motor vehicle of the jeep type in the United States.

  2. When any official or familiar, in criminal or civil cases not of faith, has consented tacitly or explicitly to the secular jurisdiction or has pleaded clergy, the inquisitors shall not protect him nor inhibit the secular judges.

  3. By special papal favor, however, it had power to inhibit their action and thus to cripple them on the spot.

  4. The shock of experience can indeed correct, disappoint, or inhibit rational expectation, but it cannot take its place.

  5. So administered, the critical cathartic will not prove a poison and will not inhibit the cognitive function it was meant to purge.

  6. He said that he could inhibit Edna's appearance, if I let him hypnotize me.

  7. It was my idea that in Miss Fielding's case the process might be reversed--that I might inhibit her secondary self by some violent excitement.

  8. Beneath certain trees, as the Norway maple, grass will not grow, and it has been shown that the tree produces substances which inhibit the growth of grass.

  9. With the interfusion of classes, their virtues interfuse; for they have a common root, and are active, provided that circumstances do not inhibit them.

  10. Besides acting to inhibit the irrelevant, it must create a sort of magnetic stress (to borrow a figure from physics) which will give dominance to those associative tendencies pointing in the right direction.

  11. The lack of associations, however, is a more frequent cause of failure than inability to inhibit the irrelevant.

  12. In order to succeed with the test, however, it is necessary to inhibit all associations which are not relevant to the desired end.

  13. The toxic products of the micro-organisms seem to become chemically united with certain molecules of the body cells and to inhibit the normal function of these molecules.

  14. So they perceive it at the very moment when it is acting upon their wills, to inhibit certain movements or command others.

  15. So it seems to serve only to inhibit activity, and not to stimulate it or to modify it.

  16. These materials which prevent the rusting of iron have been called by Cushman, who first advanced these explanations, "rust inhibitors," or materials which inhibit rusting.

  17. In view also of the well-known fact that alkalies inhibit while acids stimulate the corrosion of iron, it was suggested that the action of more or less pure pigments on iron in the presence of water should be thoroughly investigated.

  18. A ball flashing past the human eye causes the lids to close unconsciously, and it is not always possible to inhibit this instinctive mechanical act by the exercise of the will.

  19. If I read in my study, the mere attention to my book will inhibit the ticking of the clock in my room and the noise from the street, and no one will call it harmful.

  20. But nature provided mankind with other means of inhibition; sleep is still more radical, and every fatigue works in the same direction; to inhibit means to help and to prepare for action.

  21. With division of the tendo Achillis or of the musculature of the gastroenemii and the superficial flexor (perforatus), there remains nothing to inhibit tarsal flexion except the deep flexor tendon (perforans) and this does not support the leg.

  22. The absence of strong tendencies to stratification and the type of ecological adaptation present acted to inhibit the development of strong authority patterns.

  23. Poverty, it would seem, did not bestow complete immunity upon the Shoshone of Wyoming nor did it entirely inhibit occasional forays against their enemies.

  24. It has been stated that Stannoxyl does not inhibit the growth of staphylococci, but only renders the growth less virulent.

  25. The referee believes that there is no satisfactory evidence that bile or bile salts can inhibit the production of toxins in that part of the intestine--the colon--in which they are commonly produced.

  26. A sound mind is a well-organized mind in which a controlling idea is able to inhibit the opposites and is in no danger of being overrun by any chance intrusion into the mind.

  27. The causes of sleeplessness may still lie in the psychophysical sphere; restless thoughts may inhibit the idea of sleep.

  28. Thus in a psychotherapeutic system, religion has only to take its place in line with many other efforts to inhibit the feeling of misery and to reënforce will and self-control by submission under a greater will.

  29. We have to train and to develop, and thus to reënforce, that which is too weak, and we have to drain off and to suppress and to inhibit that which is too strong.

  30. Consciousness has, therefore, not the power to prefer the one idea or to reject the other, to reënforce the one sensation and to inhibit the other.

  31. If he knows the psychophysical status, and finally if he knows the means of influencing those psychophysical organs which stimulate or inhibit the disturbed central parts, he can foresee the psychophysical effects with a certain definiteness.

  32. I may for a while really inhibit the lecturer's voice completely and remain in the thoughts of my own imagination.

  33. To close the path means to inhibit the idea which demands such action.

  34. We have no mystic power by which our will simply takes hold of the other man's will, but we inhibit and suppress by influence on the imagination those abnormal impulses which resist the sound desires.

  35. They produce certain waste products which gradually inhibit their own growth and increase.

  36. These conditions are identical with disease, because they tend to lower, hinder or inhibit normal function (harmonious vibration) and because they engender and promote destruction of living tissues.

  37. Fear and anxiety intensify disease conditions, poison the secretions of the body and inhibit the action of the healing forces.

  38. We can also realize how impaired nutrition and the obstruction and destruction in the affected parts and organs will interfere with and inhibit functional activity.

  39. Anything which will inhibit the action of vital force will, in allopathic parlance, cure (?

  40. It is due to unconscious, repressed hidden complexes which crowd or press between the words of syllables, as Stekel puts it, and which produce the inner resistance which inhibit the free flow of speech.

  41. The most frequent effect is to inhibit it, but it may be anticipated or delayed, and where there is a tendency to too profuse a flow, it may produce menorrhagia.

  42. Now most physicians are convinced that the bacillus of sour milk, acts in the intestinal tract to inhibit the reproduction and growth of other, and possibly more disturbing, bacterial agents.

  43. The mind can actually inhibit certain of the involuntary processes of the body by thinking about them, and, above all, by dwelling on the thought that they are going wrong.

  44. It helps to pass the time, but the cares and worries keep insistently presenting themselves, and the effort to inhibit them, and at the same time pay some attention to what we are reading, makes a double task.

  45. Everyone who has had to depend much on his memory knows that over-anxiety with regard to the recollection of anything may seriously inhibit the power to recall it.

  46. There are many factors which inhibit sleep that must be removed or at least obviated.

  47. We have some instances, apparently too well authenticated to be doubted, in which the power of the human will to inhibit heart action has been as strikingly manifested as this mechanical disturbance of Professor Czermak.

  48. He said, "They are trying to inhibit my activities.

  49. 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.

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


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhibit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrest; ban; bar; bit; bridle; cage; check; cloister; confine; constrain; contain; control; cool; coop; cork; crib; crimp; curb; curtail; dam; damp; dampen; debar; delay; deny; detain; deter; disallow; discipline; discourage; embargo; enclose; enjoin; exclude; forbear; forbid; frustrate; gag; govern; guard; hamper; head; hinder; hold; immure; impede; impound; inhibit; intercept; interdict; interfere; intermeddle; interrupt; intervene; keep; limit; maintain; manacle; meddle; oppose; outlaw; pen; persist; pound; preclude; preserve; prevent; prohibit; proscribe; pull; rail; refrain; refuse; rein; reject; repress; resist; restrain; restrict; retain; retard; retrench; save; shackle; silence; slacken; smother; snub; stifle; straiten; stultify; sublimate; suppress; taboo; withhold