לדלג לתוכן הראשי

noun

confinement

CEFR C1

the state of being shut in or kept within tight limits

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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