"closely" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Murgo women are kept closely confined and are never seen in public - not even the youngest female children.
- Those half-dozen rooms in the first basement were where women who could channel were held if not to be closely confined.
- I was afterwards closely confined in a chamber, for having endeavoured to corrupt the King's officers, and was guarded with greater caution.
- It must be closely confined.
- I was closely confined in two boxes but far from absolute retirement.
- He was largely unacquainted with abstract thought and was content to have his small world closely confined by tradition and custom.
- However closely confined, he seemed now rather to be floating.
- Upright, though as closely confined as a statue by its mold, one felt somehow free and on guard.
- They said they found hens were closely confined, sometimes spattered with manure and sickly.
- For forty-six days before his trial he had been closely confined in a dungeon, without lights, books or writing materials.
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