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Six example sentences with confined, each labelled with its topic.
After the surgery she was confined to bed for a week, allowed up only for short walks along the ward corridor.
Medicine
Gas in a confined space heats up faster under the lamp than the same volume left open to the air.
Science
Sailors on the voyage lived in confined quarters, six men sharing a cabin no larger than a modern garden shed.
History
We spent nineteen hours confined to a sleeper compartment the size of a closet, reading by the light from the corridor.
Travel
The downturn stayed confined to the shipping sector, and retail sales in the same cities barely moved all year.
Economics
Working on a confined corner lot, the architect pushed the staircase outside so every floor could hold one whole room.
Architecture
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