confine
verb (used with object)
to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict.
have confined
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present perfectof confine.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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Lockdowns have confined residents to their homes for months on end, at times leaving them without food or medicine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2022
Authorities in Shanghai are slowly beginning to ease lockdown restrictions that have confined most of the city’s 26 million people to their apartments, housing compounds or immediate neighborhoods for close to a month.
From Seattle Times ● May 2, 2022
The numbers in solitary in America, estimated at over 60,000 before the pandemic, have exploded due to Covid as many prisons have confined inmates to their cells.
From BBC ● Apr. 1, 2021
Had the United States been able to track its earliest movements and identify hidden hot spots, local quarantines might have confined the disease.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2020
“The British have confined all American officers to their lodging houses today.”
From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson
