Example sentences for: confining

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

  • Ireland persistently denounces PK for "excluding anyone who is not Christian"--roughly equivalent to denouncing a synagogue for confining its membership to Jews.

  • By Wednesday morning, NBC's Tim Russert and ABC's Cokie Roberts were chiding the GOP for confining its appeals to white men.

  • The tasters used widely varying scales--one confining all beers to the range between zero and 30, another giving 67 as his lowest mark.

  • By confining the movie's perspective to Rosetta and her rituals, the Dardennes suggest the ways in which people lose the big picture and so have no insight into their own corruption.

  • Murray, in a dry, "straight" turn, lowers the volume on his wiseacre act, confining his trademark irony to an occasional glint in the eye and, in the face of crisis, an escalating air of gonzo dissolution.


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