confine

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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