Similar words: confine, confinement, fined, refined, confirm, confide, confirmed, confident. Meaning: [-nd] adj. 1. not free to move about 2. enclosed by a confining fence 3. not invading healthy tissue 4. deprived of liberty; especially placed under arrest or restraint 5. in captivity.
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211. We argue strongly that practice in writing should not be confined to the literary essay.
212. Today it remains rare and is confined to a limited area.
213. Criticism of the war seems to have been confined to a few individuals.
214. Women are confined to those sectors of the job market which pay the least, no matter whether or not they are skilled.
215. It was employed on marble and was usually confined to capitals, pulpits and fonts.
216. They also will be confined to base, except for official business in town.
217. Once confined with one's relatives, kinship and wealth loom large.
218. For adult offenders these had for many years been confined to absolute or conditional discharges, fines and probation orders.
219. In this area, change is very slow, and is confined almost entirely to the intellectual elite.
220. Nor are the problems confined to the rarefied atmosphere of corporate boardrooms.
221. Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this.
222. The era of class confrontation in Britain's coalfields had been confined mainly to the short period 1910-26.
223. Although support for some of the liberal values is confined to a minority, it is a growing one.
224. Being confined to the one living space meant an increase in hyperactivity and breakdown in family relationships.
225. Stevenson was arrested for murder and confined in a hospital for psychiatric tests.
226. These institutions were concerned mainly with gymnastics and confined largely to women until after the Second World War.
227. In a population confined to a particular habitat competition for limited resources is an inevitable feature of life so long as reproduction occurs.
228. Criticism and debate are to be welcomed, however, and should not be confined to academic circles.
229. Significantly, this new prosperity is not confined to the business elite or even the emerging middle class.
230. Since the invisibility of women is not confined to particular disciplines, feminism has tended to take on an interdisciplinary approach.
231. Originally, ancestor-worship and its attendant family structure were confined to the patrician class.
232. Tests are currently confined to high-risk groups such as drug users and homosexuals.
233. At the touch of a button a huge gate opens and I am confined in a small area between fences.
234. As you see, I am confined to this chair and can not rise to greet you.
235. The occurrence of violent confrontations on campuses and on the streets was no longer primarily confined to the summer months.
236. In other words, only certain discrete energies would be permitted, exactly as for an electron confined in a single atom.
237. I have suggested that they were limited in their appeal because the changes they opposed were confined to doctrinal issues.
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238. If you're working within a confined space, simply attach the Steamatic accessory adaptor to the short handle extension.
239. The Inspector edged down the confined passage into the living room which looked out on to a neat back garden.
240. The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture.
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