CURB in a Sentence

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32 example sentences for CURB, such as:

1. We can curb juvenile delinquency by education.
2. The Government should act to curb tax evasion.
3. The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.
4. In front of it, at the curb, a huge wooden clock which did not go.
5. In order to curb her impetuosity, Anne's parents tried not to repress her high spirits.

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 Meanings and Examples of CURB
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
curb
 v.  bend or curve; guide and manage, or restrain
Classic Sentence: (23 in 2 pages)
1  Those who, as yet, had no horses sat on the curb in front of Bullard's store and watched their mounted comrades, chewed tobacco and told yarns.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  "I think we should go," said Scarlett, trying to curb her eagerness and to keep her face earnest and simple.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  Up Peachtree came a closed carriage and Scarlett went to the curb eagerly to see if she knew the occupant, for Aunt Pitty's house was still several blocks away.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
4  Saloons blossomed overnight, two and sometimes three in a block, and after nightfall the streets were full of drunken men, black and white, reeling from wall to curb and back again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  For all her spoiled and willful ways she was such a lovable child that he lacked the heart to try to curb her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
6  In front of it, at the curb, a huge wooden clock which did not go.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  veterans, who when they gossiped sometimes squatted on their heels on the sidewalk, like resting Indians, and reflectively spat over the curb.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
8  Main Street was a black swamp from curb to curb; on residence streets the grass parking beside the walks oozed gray water.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  A cab was driving by; and Jurgis sprang and called, and it swung round to the curb.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  Three patrol wagons were drawn up at the curb, and the whole neighborhood had turned out to see the sport; there was much chaffing, and a universal craning of necks.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 27
11  There is a vestige of decency, a sense of shame, that does much to curb and check those outbreaks of atrocious cruelty so commonly enacted upon the plantation.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  The very first thing which I observed on arriving there was that a cab had made two ruts with its wheels close to the curb.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
13  At the same moment a sinewy brown hand caught the frightened horse by the curb, and forcing a way through the drove, soon brought her to the outskirts.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER II. THE FLOWER OF UTAH
14  You will find a small brougham waiting close to the curb, driven by a fellow with a heavy black cloak tipped at the collar with red.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. The Adventure of The Final Problem
15  Amid the droning of the wind there had come the stamping of a horse's hoofs, and the long grind of a wheel as it rasped against the curb.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. THE ADVENTURE OF THE GOLDEN PINCE-NEZ
Example Sentence:
1  Paradoxically, Ray's strong-arming may be helping to curb violence in Bangalore.
2  The only way to curb this unruly mob is to use tear gas.
3  To my faults also she gave ample indulgence, never imposing curb or rein on anything I said.
4  In order to curb her impetuosity, Anne's parents tried not to repress her high spirits.
5  We can curb juvenile delinquency by education.
6  The Government should act to curb tax evasion.
7  The headstrong youth used to flout all authority; he refused to be curbed.
8  He has curbed the religious police, who enforced Sunni supremacy and derided others as infidels.
9  That does not automatically mean, however, that the money supply has been curbed, and there is considerable evidence to the contrary.