Example sentences for: circumscribed

How can you use “circumscribed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Instead of princes and beefeaters, Theroux gives us a circumscribed tale about the fleecing of a dysfunctional British family by an unscrupulous businessman from mainland China.

  • This tantalizing suggestion of a scaled-down papal office was seized on by the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission this May in a report that suggested Anglicans should accept a circumscribed papal primacy as a "gift to be shared."

  • The type of funds to be deposited is strictly circumscribed, and the use to which that combined interest can be assigned, carefully delineated.

  • Stupid as it sounds, sitting as we are on the cusp of this new millennium, women still lead sharply circumscribed lives trimmed in by mean-spirited nonsense that's meant to keep them down.

  • Millionaire , by contrast, is circumscribed in both directions.


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