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"Confine" in a Sentence (17 examples)
Here, I'll confine this discussion to why many foreigners enjoy sumo.
Confine your remarks to the matter we are discussing.
We should confine the discussion to the question at issue.
Please confine yourself to a short comment.
Where did you confine them?
Your boundaries don't confine me.
You must confine yourself to your room, on pretence of a headache, when your stepfather comes back.
We may leave the question of who killed John Straker for the instant, and confine ourselves to finding out what has become of the horse.
People in quarantine or who are self-isolating will ideally confine themselves to a separate room.
We had to confine the dog for its own safety.
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Where your gloomy bounds / Confine with heaven
Betwixt heaven and earth and skies there stands a place / Confining on all three.
‘Why, Sir, to be sure, such parts of Sclavonia as confine with Germany, will borrow German words; and such parts as confine with Tartary will borrow Tartar words.’
Now let not nature's hand / Keep the wild flood confined! let order die!
1680, John Dryden, Ovid’s Epistles translated by several hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Preface, He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme.
Here perhaps one of you might interrupt me and say, 'But what is it that you do, Socrates? How is it that you have been misrepresented like this? Surely all this talk and gossip about you would never have arisen if you had confined yourself to ordinary activities, but only if your behaviour was abnormal. Give us the explanation, if you do not want us to draw our own conclusions.'
She says for you to bring her a slice of cake, A bottle of the best wine, And not to forget the fair young lady That did release you from close confine.
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