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Example sentences for "being confined"

  • Being confined to a narrow field of observation and practice, he is apt to give much of his time to curious study, which may be magnifique, but is not exactly la guerre against the patient's malady.

  • He did not see this patient after the 20th, being confined to the house, and very sick from the wound just mentioned, from this time until the 3d of April.

  • It is obvious that it would be possible to play curious tricks with a being confined to a plane.

  • If he were to imagine a being confined to a single straight line, he might realise that he himself could move in two directions, while the creature in a straight line could only move in one.

  • A being confined to this plane could not get from one part of it to the other without passing through the line.

  • Suppose a being confined to a plane superficies, and throughout all the range of its experience never to have moved up or down, but simply to have kept to this one plane.

  • The scamp does not stray so far north as the gag, being confined to subtropical regions.

  • For its weight I know of no gamer fish, but my experience in rod-fishing has been somewhat limited, being confined to the capture of half a dozen fish.

  • Being confined to small lakes, the cisco does not grow so large as the lake herring.

  • So the boy grows, in the world as far as he can reach it, and the girl does not grow equally, being confined to the home.

  • Some of us do better than others, but the knowledge of one is no gain to the rest, being confined to one family.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "being confined" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being admitted; being afraid; being agreeable; being alarmed; being baffled; being bent; being born; being called; being devoured; being easily; being eaten; being elected; being formed; being given; being gone; being here; being invited; being many; being married; being produced; being rather; being sent; being subject; being treated; being vanquished; familiar spirit