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Example sentences for "not confined"

  • The testimony of wicked and unclean spirits to the divinity of Christ as the Son of God is not confined to this instance.

  • The term is not confined to a body of people living at one time.

  • His reply to their charges is not confined to the question of Sabbath observance; it stands as the most comprehensive sermon in scripture on the vital subject of the relationship between the Eternal Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.

  • Piccard's results showed that both curvatures occurred and he concluded that the sensitive region is not confined to the tip.

  • How is it that when a marked variation, such as an extra digit, or a reduced limb, or an extra segment, makes its appearance, it is not confined to the adult but can be seen all through the development?

  • This modification is not confined to the final adult stage of the life-history but characterises them throughout the whole of their development.

  • In other words, the phenomenon shows that our process of seeing is not confined to the bodily organ of the eye, but extends into outer space to the point where we experience the visible object to be.

  • This principle, however, is not confined to this part of the plant's organism.

  • What we have described as the polar interplay of blood and nerve in the act of sight is not confined to the narrow field of the eye.

  • Not restrained; not confined by precise limits.

  • Not confined or imprisoned; released from arrest; liberated; at liberty to go.

  • But the warfare extends in a variety of directions, it is not confined to one sex, nor to unpaired individuals, nor need the opponents necessarily be of the same sex; it involves both sexes alike singly or combined.

  • This charm, however, is not confined to our own country, but under a variety of forms is found on the Continent.

  • This piece of folk-lore, which caused the anxious mother such distress, is not confined to the West of England, but crops up here and there throughout the country.

  • This piece of superstition, however, is not confined to Sussex.

  • What I have here said is not confined to animals, but the living functions of vegetables are likewise caused by the action of dead matter upon them.

  • Those who are best acquainted with the human heart need not be told, that this observation is not confined to music.

  • Meigen considers this as an Ortalis; but its peculiar habit of constantly vibrating its wings indicates a distinct genus: especially as the habit is not confined to a single species.

  • The language of ants, however, is not confined merely to giving intelligence of the approach or presence of danger; it is also co-extensive with all their other occasions for communicating their ideas to each other.

  • The anger of bees is not confined to man; it is not seldom excited against their own species.

  • This feeling may vary in its objects, and is not confined to any particular form of government; but whether in a democracy or in a monarchy, its essence is always the same; viz.

  • But the mischief is not confined to the central shrine.

  • Fidelity is not confined to compacts--it is not limited to the question of what is "in the bond"; it concerns persons rather than phrases.

  • Gray's well-known elegy, it is true, is not confined to the fate of a single individual; the churchyard suggests the pathetic reflections of the poet on the imaginary lives and characters of many past inhabitants of the village.

  • And this fact is not confined merely to organic corruption and disease.

  • And such an ideal enthusiasm is not confined to the sphere of art alone, but even in the calmer regions of science is its influence felt.

  • In the same way, philosophy is not confined to any one invariable and immutable form.

  • Sex is not confined to the specialized sex-organs.

  • The word chastity conveys to the mind (and this is not confined to the undeveloped person, but is general) the idea of a woman who is devoid of the sex-impulse.

  • The male principle is not confined to the form of man, neither is the female principle always expressed in the form of woman.

  • It is an idea that is not confined to the ignorant, and the narrow-minded.

  • The full significance of this is not confined to the fact that a larger proportion of the worker's time is consumed in the growing monotony of production.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "not 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:
    man like; not altogether; not because; not even; not fit; not good; not guilty; not indeed; not intend; not necessary; not see; not simply; not the same thing; not uncommon; not unlike; not very; not want; not wishing; not without; not yet; noted above; nothing about; nothing doubting; nothing had; noticed that; speak again