Sentence examples for virtually confined from inspiring English sources

Climacterids are virtually confined to Australia; one species ranges to New Guinea.

Almost a year later, Mr. Blain is virtually confined to his one-bedroom apartment near Prospect Park in Brooklyn.

The issues dividing them are virtually confined to papal infallibility and the part of the Holy Spirit in the Church.

When the Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, Kohestani and her six sisters were virtually confined to their small home in Kabul.

Since western reporters in Iran are virtually confined to quarters in an attempt to silence them, it falls on the diaspora to disseminate and broadcast the ­information coming through.

Compared to the darkest days under the Taliban ruler Mullah Omar – all girls forbidden to attend school, women virtually confined to their homes, women's healthcare left in shreds – today's situation is an improved one, albeit against this calamitous baseline.

"Plague is virtually always confined in this day and age to rural regions in the West," he told the network.

(Mr. Ali is paralyzed and has virtually been confined to a single room for 20 years, save for a few trips outside in a wheelchair).

Late in Carmichael's career, when he had semi-retired back to his native Yorkshire, the Boultings told him that they wondered if they had done their best for his talents in the five-film deal they made with him near the start of his film career: perhaps they should not virtually have confined him to the playing of twerps.

He was virtually immobile, confined to bed, had two grade 2 pressure sores, one on each buttock.

It's classic awards bait: a polio victim, virtually paralysed and confined most of the day to an iron lung, resolves to lose his virginity to a sex surrogate.