Example Sentences

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A lower-risk zone with a 20km radius has also been delimited.

From BBC • Apr. 5, 2026

It was designed to corral a small group of suspects within a delimited space, thereby reducing the number of variables the writer needed to juggle and the reader to remember.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Cayo Santiago’s current generation of macaques, numbering around 1,700 animals, is descended from 409 monkeys that were brought from India in 1938 by a researcher who hoped to monitor their behaviors in a delimited space.

From Scientific American • Aug. 30, 2023

“We must fix the flaws in our public health system, empower scientific leadership to take proactive actions and have a delimited framework for how to use blunt tools when all other options are exhausted.”

From Washington Times • May 3, 2021

That is, there is no item in an outline, no branch of a tree, no unit of discourse that consistently corresponds to a block of text delimited by a blank line or an indentation.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker