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How to use contained in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Contained means restricted in space. Example: “The brush fire is now contained: if it doesn't jump the lines, it will burn itself out.”

Examples of contained by meaning

adjectiveRestricted in space.

  • The brush fire is now contained: if it doesn't jump the lines, it will burn itself out.

More sentences with contained

  • They were discounted because they contained blemishes, nicks or were otherwise factory seconds.From the entry second
  • Her first novel contained a host of characters who were richly and convincingly drawn.From the entry draw
  • His library contained the accumulated knowledge of the Greeks and Romans.From the entry knowledge
  • The original manuscript contained spelling errors which were fixed in later versions.From the entry original
  • The ESRB rated the video game M for Mature as it contained excessive blood and gore.From the entry m
  • If the forest fire is not contained soon the town will be at risk!From the entry forest fire
  • Some dictionaries list hyphenated words as though they contained no punctuation.From the entry hyphenated
  • A centimetre is a submultiple of a metre, being contained in it a hundred times.From the entry submultiple
  • A mixtilinear angle is an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.From the entry mixtilinear
  • Each fluorescent troffer in the room contained three lamps and two ballasts.From the entry troffer
  • The audio contained some spelling pronunciations, such as when "sieve" was mistakenly portrayed as rhyming with "leave".From the entry spelling pronunciation
  • Many of the global etymologies that the journal contained looked suspiciously onomatopoeic.From the entry global etymology
  • The QUID tells a customer the percentage of particular ingredients contained in a food product.From the entry quid
  • The ransom letter contained many misspelled words.From the entry misspelled
  • The manuscript contained arcane symbols no one could decipher.From the entry arcane
  • The company’s accounts contained a number of blatant fictions.From the entry fiction
  • The vase contained a single long-stemmed rose.From the entry single
  • The contract contained all the usual boilerplate clauses.From the entry boilerplate
  • The magazine contained a review of Paris restaurants.From the entry review
  • The file contained errors that required deletion.From the entry deletion
  • In his innocence, he offered the stranger to bring the package to Paris, never suspecting it contained drugs.From the entry innocence
  • The book contained the insertion of several illustrations.From the entry insertion
  • The underprocessed food still contained harmful bacteria.From the entry underprocess
  • The success of an attempt to acierate iron will depend on the amount of nitrogen contained by the iron during carburation.From the entry acierate
  • The room contained a lacery of wires and cables.From the entry lacery
  • The economic forecast contained the usual doom and gloom.From the entry doom and gloom
  • The paper contained some newly-proposed Austro-Tai etymons.From the entry Austro-Tai
  • The patient's liver contained cartilagelike tissue.From the entry cartilagelike
  • The intrapipette solution contained cesium chloride.From the entry intrapipette
  • Every σ-algebra has a μ-completion: if a σ-algebra is complete, then it is equal to its μ-completion, otherwise it is contained by its μ-completion.From the entry μ-completion
  • Alphaltenes have a tendency to aggregate and flocculate, but resins contained in the crude oil peptize them and keep them in solution.From the entry peptize
  • If it is not contained, the virus again may rampage all over the world, experts warned.2024 August 15, Apoorva Mandavilli, “How Did Mpox Become a Global Emergency? What’s Next?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry mpox
  • His tirade contained a torrent of expletives that were bleeped out by his press service.2023 May 5, Unknown, “Wagner Group 'to pull out of Bakhmut'”, in RTHK. From the entry bleep out
  • It contained these themes, but also had a sympathetic Asian and Black, or “Blasian,” protagonist.2020 December 8, George Yang, “Orientalism, 'Cyberpunk 2077,' and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction”, in Wired, →ISSN. From the entry blasian
  • Its findings are contained in its mid-year report on Network Rail, published in early December.2020 December 16, “Network News: ORR praises Network Rail's response to pandemic”, in Rail, page 13. From the entry mid-year
  • The mixture contained eggs and breadcrumbs to bind the ingredients, the chef optioning grated cheese.2019, Alan Paris, Filament II: Brighten the World, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN. From the entry menu
  • Thus approximately 98% of signs contained English, and 93.5% of signs were wholly in English.2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual…. From the entry dominance
  • Tsia Mountain, which contained our dungeon, was within the Empire’s territory.2019, Supana Onikage, translated by Quof, edited by K. “Kitty-tama” Jordan, Lazy Dungeon Master, volume 5, J-Novel Club, →ISBN. From the entry Hokkaido
  • “Flour” routinely contained crushed stone or gypsum as a cheap extender.2018 November, Deborah Blum, “When Milk Was Full of Calf Brains”, in The Atlantic. From the entry extender

Meaning of contained

  1. adjective Restricted in space.

Full definition of contained

Questions about contained in a sentence

How do you use contained in a sentence?
Contained is used as an adjective. For example: “The brush fire is now contained: if it doesn't jump the lines, it will burn itself out.”
What is a short sentence with contained?
“The intrapipette solution contained cesium chloride.”
What does contained mean?
Contained means restricted in space.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: contained (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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