Sentence examples for is confining from inspiring English sources

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is confining

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To restrict; to keep within bounds; to shut or keep in a limited space or area.

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Society is confining me when I have to wear clothes to work.

Yet rather than welcome these entrepreneurs, the U.S. government is confining many of them to a painful purgatory.

It is not clear whether that is because of their husbands' hefty paycheques or because Alberta's social conservatism is confining them to the kitchen.

That he works on so many fronts prompts you to keep returning to see him, but sometimes the control he exerts as a composer and arranger is confining.

Maybe the answer really is confining the intolerant to their own section (and making them pay extra for it is a nice touch).

– Kantate prompts the realisation that, even when she is confining herself to canvas and paint, Maria Lassnig is essentially a performance artist.

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Ritual nakedness is confined to priests.

The audience is confined to earthly pleasures.

Modernization is confined to the main streets.

One is confined in the Lubyanka.

Mostly our insuring is confined to pitchers.

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