confinement
Example Sentences
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Binderbauer says he sees a pathway to adequate energy confinement and is confident in TAE’s technology and experience building complex machines.
His marriage to Mr. Lemann’s mother survived a “great crisis” spurred by her confinement to a psychiatric institute and an affair with one of the doctors there.
“The Pit and the Pendulum,” the first half of the program, translates especially well to this setting, its dark sense of demented confinement keeping my nerves on high alert.
From Los Angeles Times
Maybe my sentence was solitary confinement for years and years.
From Literature
After the confinement above the shop and the suffocating worries about my future, the fun had been like a salve on an open wound.
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
