Sentence examples for he was contained from inspiring English sources

Grant attacked on June 15 and 18, hoping to break through before Lee could consolidate the Confederate lines east of the city, but he was contained with 8,150 losses.

The area in which he left her was "contained," he said, but the dog somehow got out and a neighbor called animal control after spotting Sophie outside.

All the Yankees knew about Rigdon before he pitched today was contained in a few lines of a scouting report.

He said the fire was contained to the tyre.

Until Ebola was contained, he said, there could be more individual cases in the US.

With "Final Curtain" finally in his possession his reaction was "contained mania," he said.

The vascular surgeons made a diagnosis of a leaking aortic aneurysm (but which was contained), and he was rushed to the operating theatre.

The breakaway was contained.

Even in his earliest, wildest days, when his determination to kill an audience was such that he would swing from the rafters, cut flying splits from atop a grand piano, and even leap from a theatre balcony into the orchestra pit, his outrageousness was carefully calculated to convey that, while he cannot be contained, he is always in control.

Stoops has acknowledged that Manziel cannot be stopped, but he believes he can be contained.

If God is as all-powerful as fundamentalists say he is, then He cannot be contained between the pages of a single book and it is presumptuous at best to assume anyone can know or speak for God.