confining

present participle of confine

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of confining Forcing them out means confining most of Gaza's population to overcrowded encampments along the coast further south lacking food, medical supplies and space. Steven Scheer, USA Today, 16 Sep. 2025 Bruni Tedeschi captures her in that vortex — her pulmonary illness confining her to bed one minute and her artistic drives reanimating her with defiant spirit the next. David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2025 Wildlife art can be confining, constricting, customary; contemporary artists are assuring its survival and vibrancy by breaking from the traditional. Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025 Plants are also unbothered by confining pavement and other urban challenges. Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025 To make a fusion power plant economically viable, a tokamak must simultaneously achieve high plasma pressure, current, and density, all while effectively confining the heat. Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 23 Aug. 2025 Those at the back push forward, and some may even climb over others, piling up between the confining walls. Francesco Fedele, The Conversation, 12 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for confining
Verb
  • The federal government argued that the lower courts were circumventing the power of the justices and improperly limiting the authority of the Department of Homeland Security.
    Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Parents also have robust tools at their fingertips, from limiting usage to monitoring interactions.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • Human rights organizations have been ringing the alarm for years on the Saudi government imprisoning human rights advocates, including Waleed Abu al-Khair, who is currently serving a 15-year sentence.
    Jessica Wang, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Sep. 2025
  • The president specifically thanked El Salvador for accepting and imprisoning deported migrants in a notorious prison, a partnership that caused backlash after a Maryland man was wrongfully sent there.
    Brett Samuels, The Hill, 23 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • China has historically maintained strict immigration policies, tightly restricting low-skilled workers with limited paths to permanent residency for foreigners.
    Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting free speech and does not apply to private companies.
    Todd Spangler, Variety, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Subsequent reports revealed that Bolsonaro and his allies had devised a baroque plot to regain power, which included jailing and possibly murdering their political opponents.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Titipol Phakdeewanich, a political science professor at Ubon Ratchathani University, said that despite the jailing and Shinawatra family's declining influence, the indomitable Thaksin would still attempt to call the shots in politics.
    Panarat Thepgumpanat, USA Today, 9 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • This summer, Varon put her social media and communications savvy to use interning at a PR agency.
    Zoey Lyttle, People.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Chen was studying finance and mining Ethereum in his dorm room, all while interning at Innovating Capital on a hedge fund desk.
    Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 5 Aug. 2025

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“Confining.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/confining. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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