How to Use contain in a Sentence

contain

verb

• The movie contains something for both children and adults.
• The room was barely big enough to contain everyone who came to the meeting.
• State health officials have succeeded in containing the virus.
• The article contains information on how to plan your retirement.
• The book contains over 200 recipes.
• The upload contained two photos of the small white dog.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2023
• In that case, the cover is enough to contain the foam or bead filling.
  — Samantha S. Thorpe, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• This post contains spoilers for the first five episodes of The Witcher season 3.
  — Megan McCluskey, Time, 30 June 2023
• The law contains an exemption for chains that bake bread and sell it as a stand-alone item.
  — Fielding Buck, Orange County Register, 2 Mar. 2024
• Sofia: They’re just supposed to contain water and bring it to your mouth!
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
• Much of the law is contained in the Geneva Conventions, which most countries and states have agreed to abide by.
  — Lauren Dunn, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
• The blaze was 0 percent contained, the fire department said.
  — NBC News, 28 June 2023
• One eight-ounce cup of green tea contains 30–50 milligrams of caffeine.
  — Cynthia Sass, Mph, Rd, Health, 28 Aug. 2023
• There was an Israeli narrative that Gaza had been contained, but the West Bank had not.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 Jan. 2024
• This end contains the femur and pelvic bone, which can be challenging to carve around.
  — Patricia S York, Southern Living, 27 Jan. 2024
• The site contained five cemeteries dating to between the third and fourth centuries C.E.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Jan. 2024
• The other was signed in November 2018 and does not contain this wording.
  — Denise Royal, CNN, 18 Oct. 2023
• The campground contains 26 sites, tables, fire grills and vault toilets.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 4 Jan. 2024
• Colonies can grow large by summer and have the potential to contain thousands of hornets.
  — Cole Sikes Communications and Marketing Specialist Alabama Cooperative Extension System, al, 16 Aug. 2023
• The kitchen contains a primitive two-burner stove, next to a shelf holding coffee cans and jars.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2023
• The core contains precious metals which can be extracted and resold.
  — Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023
• This article contains spoilers for season 11 of The Masked Singer.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 28 Mar. 2024
• This story contains spoilers from episodes 7-9 of Love Is Blind season 6.
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 21 Feb. 2024
• The post contained a close-up photo of Jasper embracing Bosworth outdoors.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• This post contains spoilers for Claim to Fame season 2 finale.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 29 Aug. 2023
• And in the Old Testament, a story is recounted of a man rising from the dead after his body was placed in the tomb containing bones of Elijah the prophet.
  — Thomas Phippen, Fox News, 4 June 2023
• UnCruise Adventures, which operates the ship, said there were no injuries from the fire, which was contained to the engine room.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 5 June 2023
• The trees’ wood and bark contains a lot of cellulose, a large biomolecule made up of the elements carbon, hydrogen and oxygen.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 June 2023
• The consultant’s update in two years should contain a more optimistic forecast if the city is to move forward with this plan.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Aug. 2023
• The bill contained approval for a natural gas pipeline project in his state that Manchin has championed.
  — Matt Harris, The Conversation, 1 June 2023

Last Updated: 6 May 2024