Example sentences for: confined

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

  • For nearly 300 years, Islamic conquest in India was confined to this trading community in Sind, but in the tenth century, tribesmen from Turkistan, driven west by Chinese expansion, set up a state at Ghazni and began raids across the border to plunder Hindu temples.

  • McCourt learns to love literature more in spite of his schooling than because of it, as a result of the ministrations of a kind librarian and a fellow patient in a hospital to which he is briefly confined.

  • Newspapers, cramped for space, confined their headlines to Bush, Forbes, and Dole.

  • The political consensus: The public has stopped paying attention, and the media will follow suit, because the appeal is confined to matters of law rather than salacious subpoenas and depositions.

  • This type of approach might be strongly aided by comparative genomics, whereby one confined the analysis to genomic regions subject to both evolutionary and structural constraint.


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