The phrase "able to contain a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing the capacity or capability of something to hold or include a particular item or element.
Example: "The container is able to contain a large volume of liquid without leaking."
Alternatives: "capable of holding a" or "designed to accommodate a".
You have to be able to contain a spill if a spill occurs.
Barely able to contain a smirk, "Taxidermia" makes it grimly funny.
Roiled by these conflicting father figures, desperately anxious at their threats to his possession of Glenda, Shuggie is barely able to contain a murderous rage.
For the first time in a quarter of a century, its manifesto will not be able to contain a line saying 'no rise in income tax rates'.
"We were able to contain a squad with strength and quality and that had conceded only two goals in the qualifying phase.
Would it be able to contain a nuclear Iran?Israeli hopes that the United States would lead an attack on the suspected Iranian weapons facilities have dimmed.
No one has ever been able to contain an outbreak of influenza on a global scale, and, quite frankly, we doubt that the world will be successful this time.
The test chambers, able to contain an equal volume of 0.85 cc, were used to imitate in-vivo conditions alike previous studies [ 2, 3].
Many countries that have never had a case of HPAI implemented extensive surveillance system in wild birds and poultry to detect an incursion of HPAI quickly and to be able to contain an outbreak without delay.
Stage 11 embryos were also not able to contain an infection, as revealed by monitoring the bacterial load as early as 8 hpi and their survival to the first-instar larval stage postinfection with bacterial species considered to be nonpathogenic in larvae and adults.
The main destabilizing force was the stream into the country of European prospectors and concession hunters, which the Swazi were able to contain for a while but which became a flood after the kingship passed to Mbandzeni in 1875.
