How to Use confine in a Sentence
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Struggles are a passing rain in the confines of the song.
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Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
2 Dec. 2025
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But the far-firing tank loses its edge in the close confines of a dense city.
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David Axe,
Forbes,
4 May 2023
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The pair gave an update from the confines of their home earlier this week.
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Mike Brest,
Washington Examiner,
20 Mar. 2020
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His throne room is a concrete box; his scepter a smartphone smuggled in to his confines.
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Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
7 Oct. 2025
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The majority of the film takes place within the confines of the game show.
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Caroline Blair,
PEOPLE,
15 Nov. 2025
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That notion has now spread beyond the confines of TV.
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Boris Kachka,
The Atlantic,
3 Apr. 2026
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Always work within the confines of the dam to prevent the stain from spreading.
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Madeline Buiano,
Martha Stewart,
25 June 2026
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For now, the freeze ray remains locked up in the confines of Arkham Asylum.
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Darren Orf,
Popular Mechanics,
2 Sep. 2023
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That's just beyond the confines of the Local Group.
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Keith Cooper,
Space.com,
12 Aug. 2025
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But everyone else stripped down to their bathing suits, huddling in the heated confines of a womb-like space.
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Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Mar. 2026
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Wiseman didn’t follow his subjects beyond the confines of their job.
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Chris O'Falt,
IndieWire,
16 Feb. 2026
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At the end of the night, my comforter didn’t slip or shift from the confines of this cover, which was another win.
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Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
21 Aug. 2025
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That means looking outside the confines of your own industry.
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Expert Panel®,
Forbes,
17 Mar. 2023
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There, the sick and the healthy are often separated by a mere wall, when home becomes a haven and a confine.
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Colleen Shalby,
Los Angeles Times,
26 Dec. 2020
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Even when reality stars stay within the confines of the law, there are still times where drinking goes too far.
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Louis Staples,
Rolling Stone,
23 Sep. 2023
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From the confines of his prison cell, Dame has watched Adonis live what could’ve been — what should’ve been — his life.
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Ineye Komonibo,
refinery29.com,
3 Mar. 2023
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The feature was shot over twenty-eight days, covertly, mostly within the confines of the van.
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Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
1 Mar. 2026
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Once Denzel’s character leaves the confines of the home, the language of the film changes.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
15 Aug. 2025
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Was that hard–going from the relative confines of Broadway to that?
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Perrie Samotin,
Glamour,
13 Nov. 2025
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The only vehicle he should be allowed to operate is a golf cart in the confines of a golf course.
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Los Angeles Times,
4 Apr. 2026
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As the gambler tries to climb to salvation, the confines of reality start to close in.
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Erik Pedersen,
Deadline,
7 Oct. 2025
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Libraries and archives hold so much knowledge within their sacred confines.
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Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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The most apparent reason to confine AI would be to stop it from deplorable acts.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
5 May 2022
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City staff will use that time to learn more about the facilities and consider new rules within the confines of state law.
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Nick Sullivan,
Charlotte Observer,
12 June 2026
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Until now, their customers have been able to drink outside only within the confines of their patios.
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Elliott Wenzler,
Denver Post,
6 Jan. 2026
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On a sweltering summer day, three troubled teenagers set out on a reckless plan to escape the confines of their small town.
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Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
14 Dec. 2023
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Questions are asked within the confines of the women in the story, the answers clear to them, answers built from both love and rage.
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David John Chávez,
The Mercury News,
30 Jan. 2024
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Who gets to exist outside of a category, and who's expected to stay in its confines?
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R.o. Kwon,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Nov. 2023
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Even then, they were kept within the confines of American military bases.
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Peter Baker,
New York Times,
18 Oct. 2023
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Lululemon isn’t designed to live within the confines of a yoga studio or a gym.
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Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
12 July 2023
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It’s not confined to the court.
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Joel Lorenzi,
New York Times,
7 May 2026
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But Eau is not a place meant to be confined to a room.
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Miami Herald,
1 May 2026
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The geckos weren’t confined to the cliff faces alone.
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Ryan Brennan,
Kansas City Star,
20 Feb. 2026
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Rosie the robot is confined to chores.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
15 Oct. 2025
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She had been confined to a wheelchair.
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Armando Tinoco,
Deadline,
23 Oct. 2025
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He was confined to a wheelchair.
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Assistant Sports Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Apr. 2026
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But a tunnel was still too confined for Ulanovsky.
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Yasemin Saplakoglu,
Quanta Magazine,
21 Jan. 2026
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To be clear, this is problem is not confined to Democrats.
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Douglas Schoen,
Oc Register,
9 Mar. 2026
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These agents are not confined to a single screen or workflow.
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Norbert Jung,
Fortune,
17 Dec. 2025
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She’s confined to a wheelchair.
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David Goodhue,
Miami Herald,
19 Oct. 2025
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The debate is not confined to Britain.
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Efrat Lachter,
FOXNews.com,
21 Apr. 2026
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But the problem is not confined to the rustbelt.
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John Ruwitch,
NPR,
30 Oct. 2025
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This is not a problem confined to distant places.
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Robert Casper,
Boston Herald,
24 Feb. 2026
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But those impulses were, for the most part, confined to the fringes.
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Peter Wehner,
The Atlantic,
23 Mar. 2026
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And it is no longer confined to comment sections.
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Vinay Kuruvila,
Forbes.com,
25 June 2026
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Already, dog sledders have been confined to land when there is no sea ice.
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ABC News,
3 Mar. 2026
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But that mechanism seemed confined to one host species.
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Elie Dolgin,
IEEE Spectrum,
25 Sep. 2025
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Even with all the natural light in her home, her kitchen felt dark and confined.
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Farima Ferguson,
The Spruce,
28 Jan. 2026
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Compliance risk is no longer confined to banks.
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Ilona Limonta-Volkova,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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Exhibits here aren’t confined to brick and mortar.
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Kristy Tolley,
Travel + Leisure,
16 May 2026
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Legacies that are handed down to you that compel you or or confine you.
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Selome Hailu,
Variety,
9 Sep. 2025
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Neither of these signs is the type to control or confine the other.
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Valerie Mesa,
PEOPLE,
30 Apr. 2026
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And once that happens, the risks do not stay confined to one company.
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Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
16 Oct. 2025
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For a good part of the show, the action takes place with the four leads onstage confined to a lifeboat.
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Adam Bell,
Charlotte Observer,
11 Sep. 2025
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The grief is not confined to the families who lost someone.
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Julia Prodis Sulek,
Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2026
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But the effects will not be confined to Israel.
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Thomas L. Friedman,
Mercury News,
21 Feb. 2026
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But Hockney was not confined to paint on canvas.
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Devorah Lauter For Artnews,
Robb Report,
12 June 2026
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The metallic allure of chrome nails isn't confined to any one season.
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Daisy Maldonado,
InStyle,
20 Feb. 2026
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Evidence in court is confined to a single case file.
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Bedassa Tadesse,
The Conversation,
3 Nov. 2025
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For many years, these proposals were just that, confined firmly to the realm of ideas.
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Alec Luhn,
Scientific American,
11 Sep. 2025
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