Thesaurus / circumscribed

circumscribed

How to use circumscribed in a sentence

The scenery was of the usual description, consisting of narrow, circumscribed valleys and mountains covered with endless forests.

This tumult of waters, altogether confined and circumscribed, has nothing of the character of a tempest.

When she left the room, I suppose she was unable to explain the peals of laughter that rang through our circumscribed halls.

The very sky had an alien look, seeming vaster somehow than the circumscribed clouds of Kensington.

What meaning is conveyed by the qualifying term “circumscribed”?

Environment may give it birth but its roots may not be circumscribed.

The range of the intellect was circumscribed, and its power was diminished.

But their chances have been circumscribed, and I believe they lack the inclination to assume grave public duties.

UNVEILING A PARALLELALICE ILGENFRITZ JONES AND ELLA MARCHANT

Citizens of the world these men are, and statesmen, too, although their sphere is comparatively circumscribed.

Here the Wasp's sting enters and here only can it enter, within a narrowly circumscribed area.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985