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noun

confines

a bounded scope

In a sentence

Six example sentences with confines, each labelled with its topic.

  • The entire novel takes place within the confines of a single boarding house, and no chapter leaves the block.

    Literature

  • Within the confines of a sealed greenhouse, the team could hold humidity steady and rule out weather as a factor.

    Science

  • Speedrunners stay inside the confines of the original ruleset, so glitches that skip whole zones are banned from leaderboards.

    Gaming

  • The judge may reduce the sentence only within the confines of the statute, which sets both a floor and a ceiling.

    Law

  • Wittgenstein suggested that whatever lies beyond the confines of language cannot be argued about, only pointed at.

    Philosophy

  • Haydn wrote more than a hundred symphonies inside the confines of the same four-movement plan and rarely seemed cramped.

    Music

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