confine
verb (used with object)
to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict.
are confining
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present progressiveof confine.present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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The conditions are confining, and the area is isolating for families.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
If these requirements are confining, no one at TOT seems to notice, or care.
From Time Magazine Archive
But if we are confining ourselves to the expression inherent in the software itself, I acknowledge that it is a close call.
From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle
Most of the time he inserts them just as they are, confining himself to the work of harvesting them and weeding out the tares.
From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton
Just now, however, we are confining ourselves to the use of books for information; and here there is less preservation than elsewhere.
From A Librarian's Open Shelf by Arthur E. Bostwick
