Example Sentences

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Confining delivery drivers to their homes meant food and medicine could not be transported efficiently to many millions of people who were not allowed outside.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2023

Confining ourselves to the parameters measured by the thermometer, Saturday certainly seemed to hit its marks.

From Washington Post • May 28, 2022

Confining that discretion, and channeling it into evidence-backed decisions calculated to improve public safety and promote fairness, is a critically important part of prosecutorial reform.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2022

Confining her own fear to a few choked sobs and anguished whispers to her son, McReynolds focuses on her daughter, talks her through a city she cannot see, a tragedy she doesn’t yet understand.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 17, 2016

Confining ions in a magnetic field for about one hundred orbits was practical.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik