hemmed
Example Sentences
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When the park opened in 2006, I thought it seemed too flat and shapeless, too hemmed in by Broadway and Spring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Hundreds of people in central Greece are being evacuated by sea after the coastal town they were in became hemmed in by one of the many wildfires raging across the country.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
The many fronts, Warren explained, overextended the British army and navy and prevented reinforcements from reaching Gen. Charles Cornwallis, who was hemmed in at Yorktown and would soon surrender to combined American and French forces.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026
It was whether federal courts, hemmed in by the modern law of habeas corpus, are permitted to say anything meaningful about that possibility at all.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
They were glad to touch the brown backs of the fence that hemmed in the terror and made it governable.
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
