In a sentence
Six example sentences with confinement, each labelled with its topic.
During his confinement in the tower the astronomer was allowed books and a window, and finished the star catalog there.
History
The novel's narrator writes from a single room, and years of confinement make every visitor's footstep an event.
Literature
Weeks of confinement in the isolation ward left the patient restless, pacing the small room between meals.
Medicine
The judge ordered home confinement with an ankle monitor, so the defendant could work but never leave the county.
Law
Fusion reactors depend on magnetic confinement, holding a gas hotter than the sun away from every wall.
Science
Studies of Antarctic crews show that months of confinement dull mood and sharpen small irritations into lasting feuds.
Psychology
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