CONFINE in a Sentence

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184 example sentences for CONFINE, such as:

1. He is confined to bed by illness.
2. They confined the prisoner in a cell.
3. We confine ourselves to indicating them.
4. Let us confine ourselves here to this sketch.
5. The soldiers concerned were confined to barracks.

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 Meanings and Examples of CONFINE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
confine
 v.  restrict in movement; circumscribe
Classic Sentence: (160 in 11 pages)
1  We do not claim that the portrait herewith presented is probable; we confine ourselves to stating that it resembles the original.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—M. MYRIEL BECOMES M. WELCOME
2  Let us confine ourselves to prayer, when we think that a danger is approaching us.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII—CRAVATTE
3  You discuss my ideas, and it becomes me to confine myself to combating your arguments.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE BISHOP IN THE PRESENCE OF AN UNKNOWN LIGHT
4  We will confine ourselves to saying that the love of Fantine was a first love, a sole love, a faithful love.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—A DOUBLE QUARTETTE
5  I confine myself, since Monsieur le Maire desires it, to the question of the gentleman.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
6  Let us not confine ourselves to prostrating ourselves before the tree of creation, and to the contemplation of its branches full of stars.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—PRAYER
7  Let us confine ourselves here to this sketch.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
8  We confine ourselves to indicating them.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
9  It is a point of fire that exists within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can confine, and which nothing can extinguish.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—A HEART BENEATH A STONE
10  Father Hucheloup had, possibly, been born a chemist, but the fact is that he was a cook; people did not confine themselves to drinking alone in his wine-shop, they also ate there.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
11  Let the abandoned allow themselves to be abandoned, let the exiled allow themselves to be exiled, and let us confine ourselves to entreating great nations not to retreat too far, when they do retreat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XX—THE DEAD ARE IN THE RIGHT AND THE LIVING ARE N...
12  We will confine ourselves to noting an incident which, though unnoticed by the wedding party, marked the transit from the Rue des Filles-du-Calvaire to the church of Saint-Paul.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—THE 16TH OF FEBRUARY, 1833
13  Nay," said the Priest, laughing, "it is only in our abbey that we confine ourselves to the 'lac dulce' or the 'lac acidum' either.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  My object is to confine it to Mrs. Rushworth and the Grants.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  She confined herself, or tried to confine herself, to the simple, indubitable family misery which must envelop all, if it were indeed a matter of certified guilt and public exposure.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
Example Sentence: (24 in 2 pages)
1  The US will soon be taking steps to confine the conflict.
2  I wish you would confine yourself to the matter under discussion.
3  It is sad to see a county confine its activities to undignified public bickering.
4  You may take the maniac with you to England; confine her with due attendance and precautions at Thornfield.
5  It took him some effort to leave the comfy confines of his armchair.
6  Obviously you will travel in a confining ship with humans.
7  The work will not be confined to the Glasgow area.
8  He is confined to bed by illness.
9  They confined the prisoner in a cell.
10  The soldiers concerned were confined to barracks.
11  The discussion will be confined largely to general principles.
12  We know that the illness is not confined to any one group in society.
13  The woman will be confined to a mental institution.
14  The risk of infection is confined to groups such as medical personnel.
15  Poverty and deprivation are by no means confined to the north of the country.