Sample Sentences forcircumscribe (editor-reviewed)
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I will not let their expectations circumscribe how I live my life.circumscribe = restrict the boundaries of
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We crawled into the bed, my freedom circumscribed some by the oxygen, but even so I could get on top of him and... (source)circumscribed = restricted within set limits
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It seemed to have been constructed for no especial use in itself, but formed merely the interval between two of the colossal supports of the roof of the catacombs, and was backed by one of their circumscribing walls of solid granite. (source)circumscribing = encircling or surrounding
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The woman laughs as she says, "Tell me all of it." Dede looks at her watch as a polite reminder to the woman that the visit is circumscribed. (source)circumscribed = has restrictions or limits
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Above the ceaseless surface they stand--trees, cane, vines--rootless, severed from the earth, spectral above a scene of immense yet circumscribed desolation... (source)circumscribed = to restrict something within set limits
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Hemmed in, limited, circumscribed, he sees and feels no way of acting except to hate and kill that which he thinks is crushing him. (source)circumscribed = restricted within set limits
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Circumscribed as my life was in so many ways, I had to look between the covers of books for news of the world that lay outside my own. (source)Circumscribed = restricted
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At first, Max thought it might be Astaroth's seal; however, instead of the Demon's mark, this circle enclosed twined sheaves of grain that overlapped one another to circumscribe three smaller circles that might have been coins.† (source)
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He illustrated the despairs of pi for the young man with a precise, painfully executed drawing of a circle trapped between two polygons, circumscribing one, circumscribed by the other, each with as many countless tiny sides as it was humanly possible to draw.† (source)
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We pulled onto 1-465, the beltway that circumscribes Indianapolis.† (source)
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Though I, uncircumscribed myself, retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncircumscribed means not and reverses the meaning of circumscribed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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At home, our relations were circumscribed by work, and other things, too, I supposed.† (source)
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To circumscribe contact.† (source)
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A heavy unbroken crust of cloud stretched across the sky, shutting out every speck of heaven; and a distant halo which hung over the town of Casterbridge was visible against the black concave, the luminosity appearing the brighter by its great contrast with the circumscribing darkness.† (source)
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Thus it every day renders the exercise of the free agency of man less useful and less frequent; it circumscribes the will within a narrower range, and gradually robs a man of all the uses of himself.† (source)
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Old Savannah was a sharply circumscribed, self-contained world.† (source)
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