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Meanings of confines in English

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Usage of confines in English
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Working within the confines of the book, Nicholson was given free reign.
The Guardian
2
He gazed about the familiar confines of the room in puffy-eyed stupidity.
The Promise / A Tale of the Great Northwest
3
Unwilling to trust himself outside the confines of the workplace or home?
Bones Never Lie
4
Live the experience without the confines of time and most importantly TURN.
Ebony
5
Jamie woke right on time in the cramped confines of Goshy's cupboard.
The Pilo Family Circus
6
Beyond the confines of the camp, the sand lay like untracked snow.
The Forbidden Trail
7
I'm unable to talk or walk, which confines me to a wheelchair.
Wired
8
Eventually, she was able to break out of her confines at home.
The South African
9
So, what exactly goes on within the confines of a recording studio?
The Irish Times
10
The hospital confines, after the freedom of the hills, chafed him sorely.
Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories
11
In answering this argument, he confines himself to the case of Justice.
Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
12
Such mixed country one finds towards the eastern confines of the goldfields.
Spinifex and Sand / A Narrative of Five Years' Pioneering and Ex...
13
His realm will yet extend to the confines of the habitable earth.
The Inca of Perusalem: An Almost Historical Comedietta
14
By this time the confines of the tiny frontier town were passed.
Where the Trail Divides
15
The mere thinker often ends by hovering on the confines of lunacy.
The Wings of Icarus: Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher
16
For the rest of the week it confines itself to the night.
The Irish Times
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Ireland
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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