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• He had been in disciplinary confinement (“the box”)—punishment reserved for serious prison offenses—for 14 months.2009, Megan McLemore, Barred from Treatment. From the entry box
• Miers — then they would have the right to challenge their confinement in federal court.2007 December 4, Adam Cohen, “Congress Has a Way of Making Witnesses Speak: Its Own Jail”, in New York Times. From the entry noncooperating
• In Memoirs of a Woman Doctor, images of confinement merge with family images.1995, Fedwa Malti-Douglas, Men, Women, and God(s): Nawal El Saadawi and Arab Feminist Poetics, page 167. From the entry bisociation
• Here we have the category of homo who 'bulldags' only because of their confinement.1989 December 10, Glenda Edwards, “They Can't Keep Me Away From My Stink”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 22, page 5. From the entry bulldag
• They've drugged me, beaten and chained me up to the solitary confinement cell bars with metal restraints.1985 December 14, Faron Stone, “Naked Beyond Embarrassment”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 22, page 4. From the entry chain up
• The nanosheet of gold forms when a confinement chemical is added to chloroauric acid containing gold and water.2019 August 6, Ashley Strickland, “Scientists just created the world’s thinnest gold and it’s two atoms thick”, in CNN. From the entry chloroauric
• And Chris and Cathy’s taboo love, which blossomed during their long confinement, gets even more intense and Lannisterian.2014 January 11, Hillary Busis, “A 'Flowers in the Attic' sequel?! Here's why it's gonna be nuts”, in Entertainment Weekly. From the entry Lannisterian
• I spent seven years locked up in solitary confinement.2007, Dan Clark, The Thrill of Teaching, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry beyond belief
• Of magnetic fusion experiments, those in Tokamaks are closest to achieving the combination of confinement conditions needed for a reactor.1982, “Controlled Nuclear Fusion”, in Energy in Transition 1985–2010: Final Report of the Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy…. From the entry tokamak
• This paper provides a fundamental basis for future research on confinement and strengthening for future coarse aggregate-free concretes, such as lunarcrete and 3D-printed concrete.2023 February 15, Cheng Jiang, “Strength enhancement due to FRP confinement for coarse aggregate-free concrete”, in Engineering…. From the entry lunarcrete
• The soldiers could be charged with wilful disobeying of orders, which could lead to dishonourable discharge, forfeit of pay and up to five years' confinement.2004 October 16, Dan Glaister, “Doubts about US morale in Iraq as troops refuse 'suicide mission'”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry dishonorable discharge
• Then the door was shut, ending the movie and leaving the child in the silent, black confinement of a simulated, unoperating refrigerator.1971, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Hearings, page 840. From the entry unoperating
• What I find most intriguing is the octopus's ability to adapt to new and unusual circumstances—confinement in a lab—and turn the apparatus around them to their own octopodean purposes.2016, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry octopodean
• The Buddhists in Crystal City understood it as a bardo state—a provisional period between the lives before their confinement, and the dream of freedom after the war.2015 January, Jan Jarboe Russell, “The All-American Camp”, in The Train to Crystal City: FDR’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and…. From the entry bardo
• An environment department spokeswoman said: “The crocodile, which endured confinement in the unpressurised hold, was treated and given a new home with a licensed wildlife demonstrated but recently died.”2015 August 27, Joshua Robertson, “Crocodile on a plane: Queensland man fined for smuggling reptile from NT”, in The Guardian. From the entry unpressurised
• We demonstrate that an incoherent ring-shaped optical pump creating the exciton-polariton confinement supports the existence of stationary and rotating azimuthon steady states with azimuthally modulated density.2015, Guangyao Li, “Azimuthons and pattern formation in annularly confined exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensates”, in arXiv. From the entry azimuthon
• The picture that Schreber provides of his confinement is one of onesided confrontations, innuendos, and unimaginable torture, while to all outward appearances he was the model of docile inmatehood.2004, Marshall Needleman Armintor, Lacan and the Ghosts of Modernity. From the entry inmatehood
• After a week of privation on pound cake and white wine (strangely the Navy's slang for solitary confinement on bread and water was "cake and wine") Carlsen received warm nourishment.1980, The Compass, volumes 50-52, page 26. From the entry cake and wine

Meaning of confinement

1. noun The act of confining or the state of being confined.
2. noun Lying-in, time of giving birth.
3. noun Lockdown.

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How do you use confinement in a sentence?

Confinement is used as a noun. For example: ““A Navy Sailor has been placed in pretrial confinement in connection with the death of Seaman Resendiz.”

What is a short sentence with confinement?

“Morel was trying to save against her confinement.”

What does confinement mean?

Confinement means the act of confining or the state of being confined.