confinement - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • include: Thus liberation and escape are core values of the culture, including liberation form confinement, cars, offices, schedules, relationships.

Converse of subject

  • punish: Hardly suitable for these vulnerable people who feel they are being punished by this confinement, on top of their other problems.

Adjective modifier

  • solitary: He had remained in solitary confinement in jail for a year.
  • strict: He had been brought up in pretty strict confinement in Stirling Castle.
  • temporary: During the incident, approved control techniques were used to move one detainee to temporary confinement.
  • close: I was too young then to be kept in such close confinement.
  • permanent: Permanent confinement to says the family threatening to create.
  • separate: This expansion had been made possible by the 1930 Prison Rules which had abolished separate confinement.

Modifies a noun

  • fusion: Culham Science Center is now the premier UK center for magnetic confinement fusion research, concentrating on the tokamak line of machines.
  • device: In magnetic confinement devices, this outward pressure is counterbalanced by magnetic forces.

Noun used with modifier

  • quantum: In addition we find that image states are also subject to quantum confinement.
  • plasma: Information provided covers: the nuclear fusion reaction, plasma confinement, conditions for a fusion reaction, and heating of plasma.
  • hospital: I am not prepared to accept hospital confinement solely on the basis of being under 38 weeks ' gestation.
  • home: Is there a legal right to a home confinement?

Preposition: in

  • cage: For up to 20 years the macaques had lived in solitary confinement in small cages.
  • prison: Mr Irving faces spending the Yule season in solitary confinement in a foreign prison.
  • cell: This is good news however six children remain in custody, held in solitary confinement in underground cells in the military base.

Preposition: of

  • prisoner: The boro prison is a small edifice for the temporary confinement of prisoners, who are subsequently sent to Lancaster castle.
  • animal: Zoo Check believes that the confinement of wild animals for human entertainment should be a thing of the past.

Preposition: for

  • month: Ali was held in solitary confinement for 4 months.

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