Example Sentences

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Early Renaissance sculptors went to school on works like this, learning from them how to tell a complex story on a flat surface within a circumscribed area.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 22, 2025

The family shame around Mitchell’s violent death prevented me from understanding his full legacy, and ultimately circumscribed the meaning of his life and art.

From Slate • Jun. 6, 2025

As per the country's own observations, the fund had limited ability to do something about the loan, and was "circumscribed by procedural and technical formalities".

From BBC • May 14, 2025

Coolidge had attracted attention with an earlier documentary about her family, but “Not a Pretty Picture” led a curiously circumscribed existence.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2024

Dedd looks at her watch as a polite reminder to the woman that the visit is circumscribed.

From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez