confining

How To Use confining In A Sentence

• Even when the appropriate staff were available routine malpractices, like reusing unsterilised needles and confining patients to their beds for hours on end, continued.
• Safety valves are needed only when pressure builds within a confining system. Times, Sunday Times
• There are two strong reasons for confining the army to barracks. Times, Sunday Times
• This final section describes practices such as confining children for indefinite periods in six-by-nine foot cells, abuses that led to the appointment of a court-ordered monitor for Eufaula. 2008 November 13 « One-Minute Book Reviews
• The increase of pore pressure due to cyclic loadings under undrained conditions causes the effective confining pressure and the shear strength of the soil to decrease.
• There were no words confining the cover to a period while actual repairs were taking place.
• Following one teaching is not a way of confining you or jealously monopolizing you.
• In a brilliant coup de theatre, we first see him in what appears to be a poky little confining room, which as the play starts, expands into a cosy living room decorated for Christmas.
• Cora refused to wear such a confining and uncomfortable article of clothing as the wimple, which wrapped around a woman's head and neck.
• She deprives language of its mimetic function, confining it to the site of its utterance and apprehension rather than using it as a tool to comprehend the world.