confines

How To Use confines In A Sentence

• Bob squeezed his muscular shoulders into the narrow confines of the top turret.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• This is a brilliant book, encompassing themes way beyond the narrow confines of sport. Times, Sunday Times
• I can't stand the confines of this marriage.
• Strapped into the tight confines of the cockpit the driver has only one means of non-verbal expression - wobbling his head.