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contained

[ UK /kəntˈe‍ɪnd/ ]
[ US /kənˈteɪnd/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. gotten under control
    the oil spill is contained

How To Use contained In A Sentence

  • In 1860 £2-10-0 was voted for the purchase of Gaelic books; the catalogue of 1865 contained 25 titles.
  • Electronic records also contained significantly more words, abbreviations, and symbols.
  • They put out a plan that adds up, leaves no ox ungored and should shut up anyone who says the deficit can be contained by cutting waste, fraud, abuse and foreign aid. Two Tests of a Gridlock Mentality
  • All information contained herein is gathered from sources we believe to be reliable.
  • The narrative was involving, yet contained a couple of irritating lacunae. Times, Sunday Times
  • At a depth of fifteen fathoms it was six feet wide and contained 76% copper.
  • Under the "fly-in fly-out" roster system, workers can be moved to a different self-contained unit, or "donga", rather than having their own rooms, as they have had in the past. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
  • The hanging-wall zone contained 33% of the copper and was the most erratic and discontinuous zone.
  • When he discovered, in 1954, that dimethylnitrosamine was hepatotoxic he noticed that the poisoned livers contained enlarged cells similar to those seen in veno-occlusive disease.
  • It contained two spoons and a fork, silver with her family crest stamped on the handles. THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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