How To Use Confine In A Sentence

Neither do I think moraines of this kind would be formed by a glacier emerging from a steep narrow canyon and running out on a level plain; for in such cases, as soon as the confinement of the bounding walls is removed, the ice stream spreads out into an _ice lake_. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Town
She pulled the black scrunchie out of her long glossy red-gold hair, the silky strands having been confined in a simple low, sleek ponytail.
Scratching doesn't have to be confined to just hip-hop tracks.
Bob squeezed his muscular shoulders into the narrow confines of the top turret.
You may claim to dislike walking and it is often an unpleasant experience when confined to hard pavements, and busy, polluted streets. How to Lower High Blood Pressure

Whether these are in widely different subjects, or whether they just stay within the confines of a traditional subject grouping, is yet to be resolved.
The director creatively allows the audience to look beyond the confines of the theatre space.
At that time, I being but eight years of age, was left in town for the convenience of education, boarded with an aunt, who was a rigid presbyterian, and confined me so closely to what she called the duties of religion, that in time I grew weary of her doctrines, and by degrees received an aversion for the good books, she daily recommended to my perusal. The Adventures of Roderick Random
Around 6,000 were jailed for their beliefs, some spending months in solitary confinement. The Sun
This is an unprofitable business and it is not confined to Britain's biggest supermarket chain.
The little girl has dystonic quadriplegic cerebral palsy, which means she is confined to a wheelchair and needs 24-hour care.
Sternbane was the only member of the public who spoke on the proposal, but supervisors sympathized with nonsmokers, who sometimes have to share the confined spaces with people who pass the time by smoking. Fairfax County bans smoking in bus shelters
The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
New stellarators beat the confinement problem by creating a quasi-symmetric field - trading fiendishly complex magnetic fields for fiendishly complex magnets.
Mr. Smith says that for the future he will give up what he calls sarcasm, and confine himself, "as far as possible," to what he calls dry reasoning from incontrovertible premises. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
The established churches may be dying back in Christianity's historic heartlands, but Jesus himself shows an astonishing ability to escape their confines and find a new life as an all-purpose 21st century guru.
He later became insane and was confined to an asylum.
Alexandra has cerebral palsy, is confined to a wheelchair and suffers from frequent epileptic fits.
All this, it will be noticed, is a case of cell-multiplication, which differs from that which takes place in the unicellular organisms only in its being _invariably_ preceded (as far as we know) by karyokinesis, and in the resulting cells being all confined within a common envelope, and so in not being free to separate. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol. 1 and 3, of 3) An Exposition of the Darwinian Theory and a Discussion of Post-Darwinian Questions
I think most of the bad part is being confined anyway, being incarcerated-under the label of being mentally ill.
He served a year in prison - including eight months in solitary confinement.
The cryoprotectants used are colligative in action, glucose and glycerol are two of the most common cryoprotectants (a particular species confines itself to the use of a single cryoprotectant). Archive 2004-09-01
he stayed within the confines of the city
Yet to that hideous place not fo confined By rigor unconniving, but that oft Leaving my dolorous prifon I enjoy Ltrge liberty to round this globe of earth, 365 The Works of the English Poets.: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical
In fact, the great plutonic action is confined to the central portion of the island; there, rocks of the trappean and volcanic class, including trachyte, basalt, and tuffs and agglomerates associated with streams of lava, have made this a land of supernatural horrors. Journey to the Interior of the Earth
he was held in confinement
Nevertheless, one writer of independent means abstained from all public pronouncements and confined himself to acid criticisms of the government in his private diary.
It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool. A List For Australia Day
Instead of millions of vulnerable hosts to evolve within back then, we now have billions of chickens intensively confined in factory farms, arguably the Perfect Storm environment for the emergence and spread of hypervirulent, so-called "predator-type" viruses like H5N1. Kathy Freston: Flu Season: Factory Farming Could Cause A Catastrophic Pandemic
This impact is not confined to the front of the stalls. Times, Sunday Times
However, such a shocking thing as violence is hardly hinted at, and the Princess always succeeds, as the Creole lady in _Newton Forster_ said she did with the pirates, in "temporising," while her abductors confine themselves for the most part to the finest "Phébus. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
Entire avian families are essentially confined to the Neotropics, as are such unique species as screamers, trumpeters, sunbittern, hoatzin, and boat-billed heron.
On 7 September, resisting confinement in the post guardhouse, he received a fatal wound from a soldier's bayonet.
The arch - criminal was kept solitary confinement.
Application for maternity benefits must be made at least eight weeks before confinement, or within six months of the birth of the child.
There is something intensely companionable about playing with three others in a confined space; a companionableness which extends to giving opponents a fair sight of the ball without intervention of a referee.
In the opening portion of the dance, Tuson and Olson dramatize a legend in which the wind is freed from its confinement by a bear.
The more restricted of the existing modes are watercraft and trucks because they are confined to certain surfaces.
And while it's pretty expensive to incarcerate men, you can expect to spend double the cost to incarcerate women because of the cost of their confinement and also the cost to society of their kids.
Vaughan is confined to a wheelchair .
If we confine ourselves to Europe in the late medieval and early modern periods, we find that at least initial studies have been completed on England, France, Amsterdam, and parts of Germany.
The Tasmanian Turf Club banned bookmakers and confined betting on the island to the on-course totalisator in 1897.
Unlike the destruction caused by an earthquake, which may affect several buildings across an expansive area, this disaster involved many buildings and a massive debris pile in a small, confined area.
Seen from a reasonable standpoint that is a very bad condition to be in, for such people become so unadapted that they have to be confined.
Everybody, but especially people with a mental disorder, needs expert legal advice when faced with statutory confinement.
The poaching phenomenon is not just confined to financial services. Times, Sunday Times
This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
When she was 15, her father became paralysed and was confined to a wheelchair.
Where direct determination is to be performed, a variety of test methods (including repeated load triaxial, indirect diametrical tensile and unconfined compression) are available.
Roses grown primarily for flowers in the landscape, like big floribundas and shrubs, should be left higher, and pruned mainly to keep the plants confined to the space you allowed for them in the first place.
Some local governments are requiring stall-feeding of livestock with forage gathered by hand, hoping that this confinement measure will permit grasslands to recover.
The Portuguese monarch praises in round terms the edifying zeal of the primate, but wisely confined himself to his own crusades in India, which were likely to make better returns, at least in this world, than those to Palestine. The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 3
This internal dialogue will not be confined to technical questions framed within the discipline.
Organic producers often raise their chickens under free-range conditions - that is. allowed to roam outside cages or other confined areas.
Just as a crusty maiden aunt confined to a retirement home might continue to lecture her long-suffering relatives by letter, she will still be playing the duenna to an errant world, in writing.
That a man should lay down his life for his friend seems strange to vulgar affections and such as confine themselves within that worldly principle, “Charity begins at home.” Religio Medici
Wet, cold soil can be a killer of the hardiest of plants, especially when they are confined in a pot.
Except for the fiddle at a dance or a melodeon at home, frontier music, in its cultural aspects, was largely confined to amateur bands with plenty of oompah. THE AMERICAN WEST
It may seem too much like confinement, a denial of individual enterprise and the constraining of intuition into patterns of conformity.
Religion was being increasingly confined to the mosques and Islamic university.
The single-subject academic course is largely confined to the universities, reflecting their traditions of specialized scholarship and their stronger research orientation.
It is easy to construct pictorial models of particles such as the proton in which the constituent quarks are confined. A Short Guide to Writing About Science
You are in detention in the sense of being detained and you may be detained even though you are not confined to a particular place.
Below the decks, the middle passage was a hot, narrow, sunless nightmare; weeks and months of confinement and abuse and confusion on a strange and lonely sea.
It's not a cancer that spreads through the blood stream all over the body, rather it stays confined to one anatomical region of the body.
'Up wi' him! 'cried Madge wi' the Fiery Face, who had just been loosed from the 'jougs,' wherein she had been confined for 'kenspeckle incontinence.' Border Ghost Stories
I can't stand the confines of this marriage.
Its defendants praised the reformatory emphasis of Pentonville, its generally softer punishment regime, its system of solitary confinement, and its emphasis on prisoners' self-development.
Strapped into the tight confines of the cockpit the driver has only one means of non-verbal expression - wobbling his head.
Everybody, but especially people with a mental disorder, needs expert legal advice when faced with statutory confinement.
This bird is largely confined to the southern regions of the country.
To return to the general argument pursued in this chapter, it is assumed, for reasons above explained, that a slow change of species is in simultaneous operation everywhere throughout the habitable surface of sea and land; whereas the fossilisation of plants and animals is confined to those areas where new strata are produced. II. Uniformity Of Change
And this is not just confined to the big companies but also encompasses smaller firms. Times, Sunday Times
The occupants enjoyed an expansive, unconfined space, spilling beyond the room's boundaries.
He also suffers from arthritis and osteoporosis, conditions that have led to him being confined to a wheelchair. Times, Sunday Times
There they were confined in an utterly alien climate, with a resulting death toll of some forty percent, until the winter of 1913-14.
In the chick embryo, it was mainly confined to the study of the effects called forth by estirpation of limb primordia or implantation of additional wing or leg buds on their innervating motor and sensory nerve centers. Nobel Lecture The Nerve Growth Factor: Thirty-Five Years Later
The Cardioceratidae were virtually the only ammonites in the Boreal area, to which they were confined.
I have gone through the central provinces, Chontales, Matagalpa, and Segovia; from the San Juan river, the south-eastern boundary of Nicaragua, away to the confines of Honduras on the north-west. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
Development of pseudomembranes in the gastrointestinal tract during acute inflammatory or vascular diseases has been confined to the small and/or large bowel, with rare occurrences in the esophagus.
Its effect is to confine any exceptions to certain special cases provided such excepted use does not conflict with a normal exploitation of the work and does not unreasonably prejudice the legitimate interests of the author.
Of course, EU competition cases aren't confined just to subsidy cases, there are lots of actions involving mergers and acquisitions and also public procurement.
Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this.
It is generally confined to the submucosa, muscularis, and serosal layers, making endoscopic diagnosis difficult.
Like tokamaks, their currently more advanced cousins, stellarators use magnetic fields to confine plasma in a torus for fusion reactions.
Finally, any kind of attempt at escape will mean solitary confinement for 30 days.
Bishops' activities were confined to their own dioceses and monasteries exempted from episcopal interference.
In essence his submission was that those words were to be construed as being confined to torts and therefore did not include the pleaded acts of knowing assistance.
The spirit of psychoanalysis is not confined to the skin, flesh, bones and marrow of psychoanalysis, but it is also not apart from them.
Doctors are trying to confine the disease within the city.
The little pismire tried to have me arrested and confined, but I escaped him using two of my sigils. Conqueror's Moon
When indisposition, therefore, confined her to the limits of her own apartment, our heroine adopted the same mode of conduct observed at the Hermitage, during Mrs. Bertram’s illness: — she sung, she read, she assisted Mrs. Ross in any piece of fine needle-work which happened to be in hands at the time; and, in short, endeavoured to soften the painful or tedious moments of distress by every possible means best calculated for the purpose. Stella of the North, or the Foundling of the Ship
This increase was exclusively confined to the private sector which recorded a massive 115 percent increase in the number accommodated.
And health provision is controlled by Swindon's primary care trust an unelected quango with councillors confined to an advisory role.
The age range of assailants further suggests that this was not a crime confined to young men.
Fatigue, long procedures, poor lighting, confined space, and the use of various sharps and instruments make the OR one of the most hazardous hospital environments for patients and health care staff members.
These animals are thought to survive only if ice is confined to their body cavity and other extracellular spaces.
Christian contemporaries, and that their knowledge was mainly confined to mere commercial notation, an anonymous writer has shown how the modifications of form could be naturally made, in vol.ii. of the _Bath and Bristol Magazine_, pp. 393-412.; the motto being _valent quanti valet_, as well as the title professing it to be wholly "conjectural. Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850
The only significant natural damaging action, in the current climate, is erosion by topographically canalised rain water, mostly confined to becks and burns.
Whereafter I was confined to the capital city of Windhoek, the magisterial district, I had to hand in my passport and report to the police station several times a week for a couple of months.
He indicated that the problems were largely confined to the desktop rather than areas such as database access.
The most severe penalty he could receive would be a suspension of pay, reduction in rank or confinement to the barracks.
In some parts of Bavaria such bushes are set up also at the houses of newly-married pairs, and the practice is only omitted if the wife is near her confinement; for in that case they say that the husband has set up a May-bush for himself. Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees. § 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits
Viewed from outside the confines of that self-absorbed city, Muni is an expense and a nightmare that brings virtually no benefit.
All the world — meaning the ecclesiastical world as confined to the English church — knew that the wardenship of the Barchester Hospital was a snug sinecure, but no one had ever been blamed for accepting it. The Warden
A married couple were detained in the same prison, but in separate confinement, for a period of about two months.
The previously free distribution of text books will now be confined to students who are needy.
I thought we were doing quite well when we managed to reduce the whole house clutter to 2 bedrooms 'worth (or was it' confine 'rather than' reduce '?) … … Either way, I appreciate you more each time I read your blog, and extend thanks that you are so willing to share your life insights and experience. The Cottage Smallholder
As long as efforts were confined chiefly to soaking out the active factor, or the cortin as it was called, with water, the results obtained were uneven and none too convincing. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1950 - Presentation Speech
He would hate being confined, constrained and any love he had for her would change over time if she asked that of him.
Space themes are not confined to futuristic fictional series on television, although these are by far the best known and the greatest revenue generators.
Criticism is not confined to central bankers. Times, Sunday Times
In the Court's view, the events that prompted the burgomaster's direction in May 1968… are of a nature to justify an ‘emergency’ confinement of the kind provided for at that time under section 14 of the Netherlands Act.
McGregor must remain confined, on the basis of the medical reports we have received.
Seismic reflection data from NW James Ross Island show maximum dips of 15 to the SE in the subsurface, indicating that the steep dips are confined to a zone close to the basin margin.
When it comes time for these dangerous offenders to be released, civil confinement thus becomes an appealing option.
There were numerous stories and testimony about how the confined people were mistreated in the past.
He had been confined to a wheelchair since childhood.
Literary and artistic life was confined to this small circle.
The monotony of life at sea is not confined to the jobs people do. Times, Sunday Times
He will proceed in any event, your Honour, confined or unconfined, with the matter and my client desires to continue, subject to his personal capacity to sustain his position as that matter goes on.
He is so dangerous he has served all but four of his 34 years in prison in solitary confinement. The Sun
I hate the idea - increasingly fashionable in academic circles - that rules confine language.
Known to many as ‘Wrigleyville,’ the north side neighborhood serves as Chicago's sports Mecca, where the Cubs play hardball in the Friendly Confines.
Indeed doughnuts are not confined to Europe - when discussing this talk with my staff we discovered Chinese doughnuts which are not very sweet and are often floated in congee - a rice porridge.
The epoch of blue shift is usually confined to the time when the object is still inside the event horizon.
Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems, for example, do not fare well, all considered?
These being more sophisticated times, the Londoners confine themselves to doing much the same, but in a format you'd loosely have to call post-rock. This week's new live music
The detail was not confined to the period food packets and tin openers. Times, Sunday Times
In fact the Scottish government is cribbed, cabined and confined by Westminster, so that London will indeed be responsible - and blameworthy - for many of the difficulties the Scottish government will encounter in the future.
The impact of a wireless transmission is not confined to a stable set of point-to-point links, as in a wired network, but reaches any receiver within its range.
Set within the confines of a crumbling mansion, a child bride finds an unusual way to escape from her loathsome mill owner husband.
Until I was 30, my relationship with Antarctica was confined to the biannual reinflation of the globe hanging above my desk, its air valve located in the middle of the misshapen white pancake at the bottom. Terra Incognita
The joy among backbenchers when McCreevy announced the programme last December was almost unconfined, as they scurried off to their constituencies to bask in the good news.
The inhabitable areas of New Ireland are comparatively small and confined to the temperate-zone areas adjacent to the single major sea. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
If anything, increasingly independent boards of directors are overseeing the succession process and are less likely to confine their search to the best candidate within the company.
Lynn has been confined to a wheelchair for the last year.
But perhaps immigration's role in retarding economic modernization is confined to agriculture, which, after all, is very different from the rest of the economy. The Employment Situation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
Clever cooks know that it's best to keep onions, spuds and such out of the confines of a dark and dank closet.
While in Plato there is the foreshadowing of the truth that the goal of moral endeavour lies in godlikeness, with Aristotle the goal is confined to this life and is conceived simply as the earthly well-being of the moral subject. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics
Let's confine our discussion to the matter in question, please!
The paper, "Steric confinement of proteins on lipid membranes can drive curvature and tubulation," presents a new scientific understanding about the bending and curvatures of protein membranes. Media Newswire
Luckily for all of us, a steady diet of pop culture, horror movies, vampire books, and science fiction television saved Lauren from the restrictive confines of her normal suburban routine; she has only just now realized that there are other geeks out there in the world. Lauren Kalal | Fandomania
If incarceration is necessary, then the defence submits that upper reformatory confinement is adequate penalty.
On June eighteenth, M. Doléris informed me that a woman had been confined at the Cochin Hospital five days before and that fears were entertained as to the results of an operation that had been performed, it having been necessary to do an embryotomy. On the Extension of the Germ Theory to the Etiology of Certain Common Diseases
The lesions develop into 1-5 mm yellow-grey papules or pustules, with surrounding erythema, confined to the follicular ostia.
Indeed, it is nowadays oddly daring for a real artistic talent (that is, one properly attentive to considerations of language and truthfulness) to "confine" itself to this task. New Fiction
In these queries he still clings to the idea of Encke, that the resistance is confined to the neighborhood of the sun and planets, like a ponderable fluid. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence
Keep the dog confined in a suitable travelling cage.
Going out for meals was a rare treat, usually confined to birthdays, or on holiday where the atmosphere in the hotel dining room was almost churchlike, with everyone talking incredibly quietly, like priests in the confessional. Fathers & Sons
He is now quadriplegic and confined to a wheelchair.
In the case of mainstream media the debate is largely conducted between members of the commentariat on their terms within the confines of their own agenda.
The US will soon be taking steps to confine the conflict.
There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.
A subspecies of mouse deer, the Balabac chevrotain (Tragulus napu nigricans), which is confined to Balabac Island, is also considered endangered. Palawan rain forests
He would have pulled him out long before the tenth and the American would not have ended up confined to a wheelchair. The Sun
We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.
Other members of the public who had been passing through the area were confined inside a police kettle for five hours or more.
Eventually, quantum confinement effects and tunneling currents dominate the device design.
This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.
A statute of 1337 in England restricted the wearing of furs to those with an income of £100 p.a., while a later scale confined ermine to the richest and restricted the poor to the furs of humble creatures, such as the cat, coney, or fox.
I will confine myself to looking at the period from 1900 to 1916.
Nor was it merely in the cheeks, or rather the chaps of this painted face, in the mammiferous chest, the aggressive rump of this body allowed to deteriorate and invaded by obesity, upon which there now floated iridescent as a film of oil, the vice at one time so jealously confined by M. de Charlus in the most secret chamber of his heart. The Captive
Rapidly rotating Bose-Einstein condensates confined in anharmonic traps can exhibit a rich variety of vortex phases.
In wild-type chromosomes, these proteins are confined to the heterochromatic DNA sequences either by terminator sequences or by proximally directed initiators.
The previously free ( = not paid for ) distribution of text books will now be confined to students who are needy.
But here we are forbidden to walk shodden over sacred ground and details of the cruise must be confined to generalities; otherwise the travels of the celebrated Gulliver would be eclipsed, Baron Munchausen lose his claim to veracity, and the shade of the venerable Miller slink back to its original punishment. Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas
International evidence indicates that an early exit is not confined to declining industries alone.
This impact is not confined to the front of the stalls. Times, Sunday Times
He will also be aware of a list of people confined to the fringes of England action without justifiable reason. Times, Sunday Times
Nuanced verdure, brick reds and tempered whites, play against tints of calcined blues and gray-greens, broadcast beyond the paintings' modest confines.
Hazardous working conditions were not confined to the meatpacking industry.
A careful adjustment of the experimental exchange times should allow the detection of confined motions for typical distance scales between nanometers and micrometers.
And it is unlikely that the ripple effects of such success would be contained within the confines of sport.
It wasn't easy to sleep in such a confined space.
Metal-dielectric materials, also known as plasmonics, can be used to confine an optical field to a very small scale, much smaller than conventional insulators," said Min, lead author on the Nature paper and former postdoctoral researcher in Zhang's Lab, now an assistant professor at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). Science Blog - Science news straight from the source
He who pays the piper ... Such innovative schemes are not confined to the United States.
The noise was deafening in the small confines of the workshop.
His mother said he blew up because he's been in solitary confinement and has been repeatedly denied bail - and the stress is getting to him.
This bird is largely confined to the southern regions of the country.
Nor was "chequered" confined to square divisions, as it usually is now, but included spots of any size or shape. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
A mysterious illness confined him to bed for over a month.
Health officials have successfully confined the epidemic to the Tabatinga area.
The mean selfish life builds its own prison walls and passes sentence of solitary confinement. 23 Steps to Successful Achievement
His work certainly was not confined to the mathematics of weather forecasting for he continued to study the hydrodynamical work started by his father.
Boogie-woogie was generally confined to barrelhouses, dance halls, and houses of ill-repute.
You take a tattie scone I believe the English call it a "potato farl" - no poetry in that name and, having fried it, you place it within the welcoming confines of a generously buttered morning roll. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
Extensive literature exists on human African trypanosomiasis and trypanosomes, but it is mostly confined to basic sciences and neglects clinical research and the impact of the disease on large parts of the population in rural Africa.
The second assumption is also valid if we confine the analysis to a reasonable range of operations.
The report undermines the view that binge drinking is a problem confined to the younger generation. Times, Sunday Times
There is no external scrutiny of their use, no limit on the length of time a detainee can spend there, and no way for detainees to appeal against their confinement.
She has been held in solitary confinement, and without charge. Times, Sunday Times
The apocrine sweat glands are confined to the axillae, areolae of the nipples, the anogenital area, and the external auditory meatus.
And insofar as left or centrist governments do not debate the limits and / or confines of multiculturalism, or take measures to fully integrate non-Western cultures into the 'European identity' to become fully at home in their host countries, we can expect individuals of all persuasions to flock to the far-right (whom they perceive as having "commonsensical" approaches to these issues.) Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free
The galleries will no longer confine exhibitions to the areas defined by their collections. Times, Sunday Times
Although his Ride is confined to offstage environs, it is described in living color by the clown Biondello, affording both on- and off-stage audiences a glimpse of Petruchio's future with a curst wife.
The West had been settled with paved roads across the country, and the Indians were confined to reservations.
First, the uproar seems confined to over-educated liberals alone.
She eventually used a cane, then a walker, and finally was confined to the house.

How To Use Confine In A Sentence

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):