"contain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Riker paced the length of his room in a cold, tightly contained rage.
- Tightly contained steps, or wild leaps that caromed off the walls of their prisons.
- It was a tightly contained drama.
- It burns with a sharp, nervy incandescence, like a fire generously stoked but tightly contained.
- Tightly contained fury, in a face no older than his own, less than thirty.
- Tightly contained by French counterattacks on their flanks, these could not be widened to major openings.
- Tightly contained around the body Not much spatter on the books.
- And who was this tightly contained woman who'd taken her place?
- But it's a fairground ride through tightly contained corridors.
- Despite his seeming tiredness, there was a tightly contained nervous energy about him.
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