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Examples of confinement in a Sentence
The dog was kept in confinement until it was determined to be healthy.
He remained with his wife during her confinement.
Recent Examples of confinement from the Web
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Think of all the days in pretrial confinement for innocent people, or even guilty people, who have to wait until a judge clears a court date, or the public defender and prosecutor are free to spend time.
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Our necessity to overcome confinement, which has previously limited our actions and thoughts, allows us to open our minds to new and original forms of creative and interactive production — the fruit of contemporary society.
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The majority stayed for three to four weeks, but many waited much longer, some even enduring years of confinement.
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Castel ordered both men to home confinement with electronic monitoring until their sentencing.
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His command placed him in pre-trial confinement, the affidavit said.
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Even odder, the appearances of an elderly nurse and Haghi’s confinement in a wheelchair intermittently also insinuate a hospital.
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The pair have been on home confinement since their indictment — Manafort on a $10 million bond and Gates on a $5 million bond.
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And so the young man ended up tortured in the Rikers Island jail, peppered with long stints in solitary confinement, until he was released, broken, back into the world.
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First Known Use of confinement
1592
confinement Synonyms
Synonyms
captivity, immurement, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, prison;
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CONFINEMENT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of confinement for English Language Learners
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: the act of confining someone or something : the state of being confined
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: the time when a woman is giving birth to a baby
Medical Dictionary
Law Dictionary
confinement
noun
con·fine·ment
legal Definition of confinement
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: the act of confining
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: the state of being confined
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