In a sentence
Six example sentences with confine, each labelled with its topic.
The committee asked the researchers to confine their claims to the two samples they had actually measured.
Science
New rules confine each trader to a single desk limit, and no override is possible after the market opens.
Finance
The gallery asked her to confine the exhibit to twelve prints, so forty strong images stayed in the box.
Photography
The judge asked both lawyers to confine their questions to the night of the fire and leave the family history alone.
Law
The coach chose to confine the rookie to ten minutes a game until his defense caught up with his shooting.
Basketball
The editor urged her to confine the novel to a single summer, cutting the flashbacks that stretched across three decades.
Literature
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Found in these word lists
Found in 7 published word lists
- Academic Word List (Coxhead 2000)Authoritative
- New Academic Word List (Browne/Culligan/Phillips 2013)Authoritative
- University Word List (Xue & Nation 1984)Authoritative
- Academic Keyword List (Paquot 2010)Authoritative
- GRE 3000+ word list (widely used study list)Recognized
- GRE Word List 4700 (widely used study list)Recognized
- 5000 GRE Words (widely used study list)Recognized
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