"contain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

contain verbo

contain + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 1074

contain information • contain ingredients • contain elements • contain material • contain references • contain sugar • ...

verbo + contain

Kolokacji: 15

try to contain • found to contain • seem to contain • released containing • say to contain • ...

contain + preposición

Kolokacji: 47

contain within • contain in • contain by • contain among • contain about • ...

contain + adjetivo/adverbio

Kolokacji: 56

contain therein • barely contain • actually contain • originally contain • once contain • generally contain • ...

Kolokacji: 13

Grup znaczeniowych: 13

(1) therein, normally, commonly

Kolokacji: 3

(2) barely, hardly, scarcely

Kolokacji: 3

1. barely contain = ledwie zawieraj barely contain

2. hardly contain = ledwie zawieraj hardly contain

3. scarcely contain = ledwie zawieraj scarcely contain

The observers in the monitoring bunker could scarcely contain their excitement.
Sometimes he seems to feel so much that he can scarcely contain it.
It now contained scarcely two million people, and a hundred times as many machines.
She could scarcely contain her excitement at having had the good luck to possess the right key.
I can scarcely contain myself at the bare idea.
June and Ogden were so elated they could scarcely contain themselves.
When the little boy died the King could scarcely contain his grief; he shut himself into his room and would see no one.
He, on the other hand, could scarcely contain himself.
Sam could scarcely contain himself, the relief was incredible.
Playful and happy, he could scarcely contain his eagerness to proceed.