Example sentences for: confines

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

  • The Dutch were the next to try: in 1625, they succeeded in pinning the Spanish into the confines of El Morro; but after looting everything of value, they set fire to San Juan and departed.

  • Hollings was an architect of the New South, establishing South Carolina's network of technical colleges and avidly recruiting manufacturers to its low-tax, anti-union confines.

  • However, this is only the beginning, and the genes identified in this manner will have to be tested in vivo, in systems like that of Baum and Perrimon, where specific functions can be assessed in time and space within the confines of real organisms.

  • -- This is the listing that made Susan B. Anthony burst the confines of her coffin, drive down to South Carolina to purchase an inexpensive and easily obtainable handgun, take the red-eye to Hollywood, and clean house.

  • If the art is so much about "real life" as you praise it for being, communicating beyond the precious confines of the art world, dealing with themes and issues that are bigger than paltry aesthetic experiences, then all credit, surely, to Citizen Rudy for plunging right in with his criticism?


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