Sentence Examples

1. Now, lest I should be supposed more of a madman than I actually am, I will detail, as well as I am able, the considerations which led me to believe that an achievement of this nature, although without doubt difficult, and incontestably full of danger, was not absolutely, to a bold spirit, beyond the confines of the possible.
2. I have attempted to offer a fair and balanced portrait of corruption on Lanzarote within the very tight confines of fiction, offering a variety of perspectives.
3. I thanked her pleasantly, escaped the confines of the glass cage, and paused outside to consider my next move.
4. Dan pointed and Catherine looked hard into the dim confines of the trees.
5. The sensation of being watched faded within the confines of my locked apartment.
6. Jack looked around the confines of the walled courtyard, his eyes taking in the defences, maintenance, and structure of the heavy curtain wall.
7. She knew well that the means existed within the confines of the Tower to extract any convenient confession.
8. Poe has chosen to exhibit his power chiefly in that dim region which stretches from the very utmost limits of the probable into the weird confines of superstition and unreality.
9. Our player confines himself not at all nor, because the game is the object, does he reject deductions from things external to the game.
10. Any conceivable airborne threat would be instantly whooshed away through a ventilation system designed to clear the room and isolate any pathogens released within its confines.