Sentence examples for be a contained from inspiring English sources

But on Monday night, with winds between 34 and 40 mph, a hot ember in what was thought to be a "contained, cool dry area" on the eastern side of the fire was blown across a containment line and burned about 150 acres, forcing more evacuations, Godfrey said. . "We did not anticipate the high winds last night," he said. . [email protected]@latimes.com

"It needs to be a contained environment, but why not put windows everywhere, so that you can look inside and see what's happening in there?" he says.

In the hands of a more disciplined writer — the Lee Smith of "Black Mountain Breakdown" and "Oral History," or perhaps Jill McCorkle or Elizabeth McCracken — "Dinosaurs on the Roof" might be a contained comic soap opera awash in the domestic baroque.

I thought it to be a contained and time limited event.

The powder room I did with his fabric works because it is a contained surprise.

First, because it is a contained space in which to shoot.

It's a contained whole — which makes it, to my mind, all the more immersive.

She has always been a contained performer, seldom naturally theatrical, but her gaze across the footlights was almost piercing.

In Chuck Hagel's Senate confirmation hearings the questions focused somewhat obsessively on Iran and Israel, as if North Korea was a contained threat.

That was a contained viral name outbreak.

Pregames are a contained, precision engineered operation.