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How to use confine in a sentence

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Consequently, some areas of town are isolated, and thus confine their residents to staying close to home.
I propose to confine my comments to matters of general policy within the Club.
These days, most scholars confine their researches to a narrow stretch of time and space.
Then the Alien Enemies Act gave the president the authority to confine or deport aliens of an enemy country during a state of war.
Yet even the members of this excellent Cambridge team sometimes fail to confine themselves within the narrow bounds of testimony.
In general I confine myself to extra satsumas and nuts, although I do find it difficult to resist those giant chocolate Brazils.
Some would argue that historians are not supposed to make history, that they should confine themselves to writing it.
He explained that if you catch a small shark and confine it, it will stay a size proportionate to the aquarium.
Like tokamaks, their currently more advanced cousins, stellarators use magnetic fields to confine plasma in a torus for fusion reactions.
Most states with three strikes legislation confine it to serious violent crime.
I shall confine myself to telling you about that Saturday she did our hair.
I was a rock climber and mountaineer, although I now confine myself to fell walking.
I must confine my writing to the inside, enclose it within a perimeter, which forms a circular line, an orbit around the text.
In this sense, popular culture functions as a trap to confine the imagination to stereotypical images of Indian people.
The public cannot be expected to confine its scrutiny of the Utah legal profession to the fortuities of state boundaries.
Since no strong theoretical reason exists to confine the analysis to geodesics, Stephenson and Zelen's measure might be preferable.
If the outdoors is too dangerous, ailurophiles often forgo feline companionship rather than confine a cat indoors.
The flight lasted eight hours, and the sick crew managed to confine their sickness and diarrhoeal episodes to the plane's toilets.
In order to tailor each course to your company's requirements, we plan to confine group sizes to between four and twelve participants.
We can look at the whole sweep of history and not just the narrow corner that some partisans wish to confine us to.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It stands in marked contrast with the of the valiant Lycians, whose short and spare tunic required no cincture to confine it.
In this prefatory note I confine myself to the career of the younger sister.
Let us in the first place confine our attention to the three chief forms which every lepidopteron presents, viz.
Vaucanson, however, did not confine himself merely to the making of automata.
In 1775 he was an addresser of Gage, and was ordered, in consequence, to confine himself to his own leasehold.
A piece of iron used instead of a chain to confine the dead-eye of the backstay to the after-channel.
A brightener need not confine herself to female society, as a mere Companion must.
We shall have to confine our attention therefore to the heroic poetry of the Cymry.
I will confine myself to one, which appears to me the most important of all.
Busy as Mr. Galloway was, that day, he could not confine his thoughts to his business.
In this country, on the other hand, we confine the hereditament to property, abrogating it in the case of rank and power.
I wish he'd confine his diagnostics to the Mechanical Division where it belongs!
In habits both birds resemble the marsh harrier, but do not confine themselves to damp places.
I confine myself to the connection of ministers, mediately or immediately, with only two persons concerned in this debt.
Constrained by circumstances to confine himself to an incommodious apartment, he ennobled it with specimens of his early studies.
Any food or medicine that will confine or derange the bowels is to be forbidden.
The ligatures, skilfully placed to confine the experiment to a safe area, gave way, beneath the whole burden of a well-fed frame.
I am not seeking to divert his fury from myself, but to confine it to myself.
He did not choose to obey Jermyn's indication, and confine himself to the summing-up.
Paine was indeed of no century, and no formula of classification can confine him.
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