The word "confining" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe something that restricts or limits a person's movements, options, or activities. For example, you could say: "The small, confining apartment began to feel suffocating after several months of quarantine."
Keith Flett London As one who was married to a policeman for more than 20 years and whose formal education ended at 17, I have often wondered what would be the effect of confining entry to the police service to graduates, including those who have studied the increasingly popular academic field of crime and policing in context.
Legal advice has suggested that it is possible to strip a UK citizen of their passport in Britain as a way of confining them to the UK.
"What Stalin made me drink seemed pretty savage: Winston, who by that time was complaining of a slight headache, seemed wisely to be confining himself to a comparatively innocuous effervescent Caucasian red wine".
Real aren't just confining their attentions to one bit of Manchester, mind.
Yet Governor Jay Nixon was sharply criticised for confining the soldiers to guarding a police command centre while the city burned.
The regime can survive by further confining its area of control to the western area of the country, where its grip is firmest.A political solution looks just as improbable.
Another would chip away at laws protecting workers against dismissal, by, for instance, confining some protections to people in companies with more than 20 employees.
In the past few years, they have made steady progress, confining Labour to their traditional strongholds in the south-east of the city.
In fact, Bolivia has all the trappings of a maritime power except an actual coastline (confining its navy to lakes and rivers).
That choice, he says, rests on a government policy that withholds welfare benefits for the duration of a hospital stay at the state's expense.Some think South Africa should consider forcibly confining unco-operative patients carrying the nastiest strains, however much that would flout individual liberty.
The college also has the added advantage of confining doubts about narrow margins to a few states.
