"confine" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- She was abducted and confined for 16 days in a bunker beneath the home of a family friend.
- She looked magnificent, her athletic figure showing to its best in the tightly fitting black jacket and her red hair confined in a velvet snood beneath her hard hat.
- The four workers spent the bulk of their hours confined to the underground warren of offices, maintenance shops, locker rooms and lunchrooms on the B-2 level beneath the trade complex's 110-story twin towers and its Vista International Hotel.
- The arena-slaves were kept confined beneath the arena itself, in cells holding one man each.
- The stage is variable; it can be round, thrust into the audience or confined beneath a proscenium arch.
- Lord Sunglass had been confined in the cells beneath Dragonstone for a time, as had Ser Hubard Rambton's sons; all of them had ended on the pyre.
- The rest of his crew was confined under house arrest in the murky tunnels beneath the Imperial Palace, which was actually the kindest place to keep them.
- Her own bosom was strictly confined by the stays beneath her bodice, which was tightly hooked from her waist almost to her throat, with a neck-ruff concealing even the pale expanse between her collar bones.
- We'd confined him to one of the more remote cellar storage rooms far beneath Fonteyn House, well away from any ears with no business hearing his bellowed curses.
- An unknown lady portrayed by Rogier van der Weyden shows the hair pulled smoothly back from the face and confined in a caul or early hennin beneath a sheer veil.
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