[ US /ˈstɹɪkt/ ]
[ UK /stɹˈɪkt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. (of rules) stringently enforced
    hard-and-fast rules
  2. incapable of compromise or flexibility
  3. severe and unremitting in making demands
    a stern disciplinarian
    an exacting instructor
    strict standards
  4. rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
    a strict vegetarian
    rigorous application of the law
  5. characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint
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How To Use strict In A Sentence

  • Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
  • This, coupled with a lack of accounting controls, led the district into bankruptcy.
  • My stepfather was strict and didn't let us have friends in the house; he physically abused me but not sexually.
  • Between Blackburn Hill and Enderly Road very little social intercourse existed and, as the Road people resented what they called the pride of Blackburn Hill, there was a good deal of bad feeling between the two districts. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906
  • These constricted unmyelinated regions are called nodes of Ran-vier (rahn-vee-ay), after the French histologist Louis Antoine The Human Brain
  • In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
  • There are at least a dozen other restrictions aimed at preserving blood supply safety.
  • Most teachers, in colleges that don’t restrict it, will be delighted to have an interested, if unmatriculated, student in their class who sincerely wishes to learn. Letter to the St. Petersburg Times on ID Poll - The Panda's Thumb
  • The aircraft have to meet the strict specifications laid down by the FAA.
  • You may go on strict diets and exercise obsessively. PCOS DIET BOOK: How you can use the nutritional approach to deal with polycystic ovary syndrome
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