How to Use confined in a Sentence

confined

adjective
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  • She gets uncomfortable in confined spaces.
  • Many changes for him are happening in a confined, immediate-impact space of the field.
    — Michael Gehlken, Dallas News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And the seawalls the Army Corps is proposing for the area could serve to make residents feel all the more confined.
    — Geoff Dembicki, The New Republic, 2 Aug. 2023
  • And, as the name suggests, recluse spiders tend to hide in dark, confined spaces rather than out in the open.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 8 July 2022
  • Right now people feel confined and often don’t see the light at the end of the tunnel, Castillo says.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, sun-sentinel.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The spread of the outbreak in confined spaces continued to be a worry.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 23 Feb. 2020
  • But the slow, steady expansion of coaching and training staffs over the years has only made the space feel more confined.
    — Scott Cacciola, New York Times, 9 Apr. 2016
  • Among other things there is a danger of a buildup of carbon dioxide in some of the more confined spaces.
    — James Hookway, WSJ, 4 July 2018
  • Whoever is lucky enough to one day ride the rocket into space would be squeezed into a cramped and confined tube.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 7 June 2011
  • Playing in more confined spaces should help cut that number down.
    — Michael Lev, The Arizona Republic, 12 Aug. 2022
  • The more that people are forced into confined spaces, the more opportunity the virus will have to spread.
    — James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 5 June 2020
  • In confined regions such as passes, creek mouths, and canals, mesh dip nets are effective.
    — Bob McNally, Field & Stream, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Amid the pandemic, and now the cold, dark descent into winter, many of us are more confined to our homes than ever before.
    — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 15 Dec. 2020
  • The effects of that crisis will not remain confined to the region for long, however, nor will the people already dealing with the sharp end of it.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 17 July 2019
  • Passengers remain confined to their cabins, which vary in size from suite-like spaces to rooms the size of a single-car garage or smaller.
    — USA Today, 11 Feb. 2020
  • Months before the rest of the world woke up to masks and the dangers of confined spaces and dense crowds, Japan set out to find a way to live through the pandemic without a draconian lockdown.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2020
  • These projects often remain confined to the realm of experiments.
    — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2020
  • The lagoon at once outlines the confined world of Sant’Erasmo locals and provides them with a sprawling playground of temporary escape.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 10 Apr. 2022
  • As long as tensions remain confined to economic sabotage, Vatanka said, groups like Hezbollah and the Houthis will likely stay out of the fray.
    — Washington Post, 19 June 2019
  • Of course, that’s often particularly true in bathrooms, which are often the most confined spaces in a home.
    — Maren Estrada, BGR, 29 Apr. 2021
  • Filled with a heavy load of tiny plastic or glass pellets, a weighted blanket can weigh up to 25 pounds, creating a confined feeling similar to a hug.
    — Neha Tandon, womenshealthmag.com, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The pandemic exacerbated the need to be in or around the great outdoors after months of being unable to leave confined spaces.
    — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Some took actions to protect themselves like locking them themselves in confined closets.
    — Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The small piece of quartz, one-thousandth of the width of a human hair, will be suspended by an electric field and trapped in a cold, confined space, where its atomic vibrations will slow to near absolute zero.
    — Ramin Skibba, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Feb. 2020
  • With space at a premium, residents have learned to fit everything in very confined spaces, from beds to appliances to cars, as well as buildings.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 9 Apr. 2020
  • At its start, its protagonist, Claire, is feeling very confined indeed.
    — Lily Meyer, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2021
  • After years of traveling from town to town, parading tail-in-trunk through arenas and living in confined spaces, the elephants deserve happiness, Gadd said.
    — Washington Post, 13 May 2021
  • In many ways, the arc of the Warren candidacy is the story of her cornering an upscale demographic early, only to become confined to it, and then lose her grip on it.
    — Shane Goldmacher, New York Times, 11 Mar. 2020
  • That included a technical rescue team that is trained in the removal of victims trapped in complex or confined spaces, fire officials said.
    — NBC News, 25 June 2021
  • Airlines say commercial aircraft are safer than other confined spaces because the air flows from ceiling to floor and cycles out every three to four minutes.
    — Dallas News, 22 Oct. 2020

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