confine

Example Sentences

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The harsh environment would confine people to domes or underground shelters, where boredom and isolation would be real dangers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026

Furthermore, we’re going to confine those categories very narrowly.

From Slate • Jan. 26, 2026

The best hope for the Fed, then, is to get inflation low and confine annual price increases to a stable and narrow range.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 23, 2026

This amorphous metal is highly unstable and exists only as long as the stationary atoms continue to confine it.

From Science Daily • Dec. 11, 2025

“Obviously those who can’t confine themselves to a particular way of thinking would be most likely to leave a faction or fail its initiation, right?”

From "Insurgent" by Veronica Roth