"confine" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

confine verbo

confine + preposición
Kolokacji: 19
confined to • confined within • confined in • confined for • confined at • ...
confine + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 31
largely confined • mainly confined • generally confined • confined entirely • once confined • ...
(3) generally, narrowly
Kolokacji: 2
2. narrowly confined = ledwie zamknąć narrowly confined
  • In ecology, an ecosystem which originally ranged over a large expanse, but is now narrowly confined, may be termed a relict.
  • Six members of this Court concluded that it does, under narrowly confined circumstances.
  • No wonder the plants were narrowly confined!
  • But the decision, written by Justice Thurgood Marshall, was narrowly confined to the facts of the Florida case.
  • Right to Sue Is Argued The narrowly confined nature of the opinion may have reflected the majority's view that the case was a close one.
  • So it was with Olivier, who surely understood that, as with most of his breed, his genius was narrowly confined to his art.
  • And his field of vision and his own visibility were narrowly confined within the walls of the black and white water around him.
  • Sam narrates the story of his and his brother's education, which the reader soon knows will not be narrowly confined to books and the classroom.
  • Mr. Wiseman captures a narrowly confined world.
  • But many analysts worry that the recent run-up in prices is too narrowly confined to large-capitalization stocks.
(5) closely, wholly
Kolokacji: 2

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