Use "confining" in a sentence

1. Strapped securely to his chest, he locked the world out, but even the hot confining seat belts couldn't hold her emotions back, once alone in the car

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2. The prodigal perverts it in this manner: By not confining his expense within his income, he encroaches upon his capital

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3. By confining them to the home market, our merchants, it was expected, would not only be enabled to buy them cheaper in the plantations, and consequently to sell them with a better profit at home, but to establish between the plantations and foreign countries an advantageous carrying trade, of which Great Britain was necessarily to be the centre or emporium, as the European country into which those commodities were first to be imported

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4. By confining such commodities to the home market, therefore, it was proposed to discourage the produce, not of Great Britain, but of some foreign countries with which the balance of trade was believed to be unfavourable to Great Britain

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5. That minister had unfortunately embraced all the prejudices of the mercantile system, in its nature and essence a system of restraint and regulation, and such as could scarce fail to be agreeable to a laborious and plodding man of business, who had been accustomed to regulate the different departments of public offices, and to establish the necessary checks and controlls for confining each to its proper sphere

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6. His personal quarters had never felt so confining

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7. Into other arts, the division of labour is naturally introduced by the prudence of individuals, who find that they promote their private interest better by confining themselves to a particular trade, than by exercising a great number

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8. By confining the duties of customs to a few sorts of goods, and by levying those duties according to the excise laws, a much greater saving might probably be made in the annual expense of the customs

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9. questioned about the safety of the harbor for anchorage, he said the harbor would be too confining for a ship the length of the

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10. Seat belts are not as confining as wheelchairs

11. 5 And the sons of Jacob pursued them to the gate of the city of Chazar, and they struck a great striking among the kings and their armies, about four thousand men, and while they were striking the army of the kings, Jacob was occupied with his bow confining himself to striking the kings, and he killed them all

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12. 5 And the sons of Jacob pursued them to the gate of the city of Chazar and they struck a great striking among the kings and their armies about four thousand men and while they were striking the army of the kings Jacob was occupied with his bow confining himself to striking the kings and he killed them all

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13. Marjie’s fibro had gotten worse, confining her to the house more and more

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14. painful than confining my mind to the world of the prison

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15. It may certainly be confining and terribly restricting, but it is not enslavement from without

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16. Has his church become so confining and closed off that it no

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17. confining, he pulled on his trousers, and walked toward the door

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18. was suddenly too hot and confining

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19. Soon the summer holidays that the O’Connor children found sedate and confining came to an end and they almost gladly settled back into their school routine

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20. upheaval, this stricture has loosened, although many subtle means of confining women

21. But they lifted him upon the table, and Orastes clothed him in a curious dark velvet robe, splashed with gold stars and crescent moons, and fastened a cloth-of-gold fillet about his temples, confining the black wavy locks that fell to his shoulders

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22. So he delayed the conquest of these provinces, confining his activities to objectless raids and forays, meeting Amalric's urges for action with all sorts of plausible objections and postponements

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23. Feeling for the baggie confining the nurse‘s delicate undergarments Sam nervously kneaded it, finding its redolence overpowering—even though sealed and in his pocket

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24. and coaching programs without confining the coach to a

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25. the most confining chains of

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26. As confining as that world might have been, at least we

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27. The shop is too confining

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28. Pedro, under the influence of less confining sexual norms, started to ask himself questions about his preferences

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29. The whole thing is complicated by the fact that he seems to have had a view of art that was too confining, too intellectual

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30. Then he turned his attention to the one confining them, and stabbed him in the leg

31. Anderson wondered whether she thought he had been instrumental in confining her to a desk because of it

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32. from desire for their objects, confining his intellect within the Self,

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33. It is meant to refocus a disturbed client from overly confining himself to problems of his own, arousing concern and understanding to the plight of others

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34. was out of this now tight and confining jail so that she

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35. As the story goes, some time ago Larry, a rather rotund patron of one of the restaurants, complained to management that the chairs, all of which had arms, were too confining

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36. Confining him, as Harry turned around with a handgun in his left hand

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37. It was quite late, but it had been a confining day for Kennedy who had spent the hours while not working on Carton's case in some of the ceaseless and recondite investigations of his own to which he was always turning his restless mind

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38. It was if someone had slammed a door on her, confining her to a room where there was only agony, no chance of escape or help

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39. as you go along, instead of confining yourself to the use of those with which

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40. physics possible when it is “mass” that forms the confining gravity

41. Compress space even today with a piston in a cylinder and then pump the compressed air into a container and such confining of space will increase the heat by the piston effort to reduce the space brought about in the container

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42. Still, confining me to the basic principles felt like a real advance, and avoiding cheese, one of my favorite foods was definitely a psychological victory

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43. A cocoon is small and confining and desolate and lonely and dark, and it means the

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44. Maybe she felt more comfortable on shore, off the confining boat, or maybe it was because she was back in her native country where she did not feel like a stranger, a feeling she’d retained throughout her time in Israel despite her rapid rise to a high-level government position

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45. This appears to be the only term in the Scriptures which favors the notion of confining hell to a local habitation

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46. The business of fixing and flipping real estate is a great stress reliever because you can get to earn money without confining yourself to a cramped office space

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47. As on the previous occasion, this speaker made no reference to Socialism, confining himself to other matters

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48. To the extent that it was possible, they tried to stay out of each other’s way, but the train was a confining environment and it was a challenge for both groups all the way east

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49. For this reason, the investor would seem to gain better protection against adverse developments by confining his industrial selections to companies which meet the two requirements of (1) dominant size and (2) substantial margin of earnings over bond interest

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50. Moreover, the confining of investment demand to a few eligible types of enterprise is likely to make for scarcity, and hence for the acceptance of inferior issues merely because they fall within these groups

51. More satisfactory results are to be obtained, in our opinion, by confining the positive conclusions of the analyst to the following fields of endeavor:

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52. Thus in the past, at least, there have been persuasive reasons for confining the purchase of industrial bonds and preferred stocks to companies that not only are of major size but also have shown an ability in the past to withstand a serious depression

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53. In spite of this antiquity, the authorities committed the error of confining in the New Building the most troublesome prisoners, of placing there "the hard cases," as they say in prison parlance

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54. As Infanta, Montserrat got away with just a modest silver circlet confining her unruly dark-blond dreadlocks

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55. I’m sure last winter (it was a very severe one, if you recollect, and when it did not snow, it rained and blew), not a creature but the butcher and postman came to the house, from November till February; and I really got quite melancholy with sitting night after night alone; I had Leah in to read to me sometimes; but I don’t think the poor girl liked the task much: she felt it confining

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56. The Carthaginians and Romans come next in the history of shipbuilding, confining themselves chiefly to the Mediterranean, and using oars as the principal means of propulsion

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57. “You have erred, perhaps,” he observed, taking up a glowing cinder with the tongs and lighting with it the long cherry-wood pipe which was wont to replace his clay when he was in a disputatious rather than a meditative mood—“you have erred perhaps in attempting to put colour and life into each of your statements instead of confining yourself to the task of placing upon record that severe reasoning from cause to effect which is really the only notable feature about the thing

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58. Instantly the captain ran forward, and in a loud voice commanded his crew to desist from hoisting the cutting-tackles, and at once cast loose the cables and chains confining the whales to the ship

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59. By confining myself to handing over the letter, especially in silence, I should have scored at once, putting myself into a position of superiority over Versilov

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60. And so I trust I may not be reproached, for confining myself to what struck me

61. As for Zinovy Prokofyevitch, having a good heart, he sobbed and shed tears in his remorse, for having frightened Semyon Ivanovitch with all sorts of absurdities, and gathering from the invalid's last words that he was quite poor and needing assistance, he proceeded to get up a subscription for him, confining it for a time to the tenants of the flat

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62. Learned men, such as Tiele and Spencer, treat religion as a serious matter, understanding by religion the metaphysical doctrine of the universal principle, without suspecting that they have lost sight of religion as a whole by confining their attention entirely to one of its phases

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63. How often it happens that for years one sees a family cover themselves over with a conventional cloak of decorum, and preserve the real relations of its members a secret from every eye! How often, too, have I remarked that, the more impenetrable (and therefore the more decorous) is the cloak, the harsher are the relations which it conceals! Yet, once let some unexpected question—often a most trivial one (the colour of a woman’s hair, a visit, a man’s horses, and so forth)—arise in that family circle, and without any visible cause there will also arise an ever-growing difference, until in time the cloak of decorum becomes unequal to confining the quarrel within due bounds, and, to the dismay of the disputants and the astonishment of the auditors, the real and ill-adjusted relations of the family are laid bare, and the cloak, now useless for concealment, is bandied from hand to hand among the contending factions until it serves only to remind one of the years during which it successfully deceived one’s perceptions

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64. But, instead of confining ourselves as she had done to this bloodless warfare, we must copy the wise example of her successors, and after our battle of Friedland, he supposed, we also should have our peace of Tilsit

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65. Should this appeal be promptly answered, the first number of the next volume (already in considerable forwardness,) will be published in the course of the summer; and should men of ability continue to furnish communications, and the public be willing to pay for the work, it is our wish to publish future numbers with greater frequency, and to complete our volumes whenever we are prepared, without confining ourselves to particular periods of time

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66. I believed it became me to take higher ground, and without confining myself to the mode best calculated to recover the property, to pursue that which the dignity of the American Government required

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67. Confining our attention to the sculptures of the frieze, we will examine certain inaccuracies of detail which have hitherto prevailed in the treatment of this important landmark in the history of decorative reliefs of the fourth century

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68. The shoe-maker's occupation is gone, except as he becomes a part of the mechanism of a great factory, not making shoes, but confining himself to the simplest elements of a shoe, cutting uppers or scraping soles

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