How to Use contained in a Sentence

contained

adjective

• There were practice fields close by, which kept the team in a contained area.
  — oregonlive, 3 Jan. 2021
• Murn is a very contained guy with bursts of anger and emotion.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 10 Feb. 2022
• And whole home rental may be seen as more contained and secure.
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 6 June 2020
• Hence, the casino was reopened, though in a much more contained form.
  — Irene Dominioni, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Three contained cotton balls soaked in urine from the other three dogs.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 18 June 2021
• Midway through Bombshell, cameras swoop in on the contained chaos of the ladies’ wardrobe room at Fox News.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 9 Dec. 2019
• And then there are the contained ruins of Chernobyl itself, which the Russians grabbed a week ago.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2022
• The plane crashed into a backyard, and a small, contained fire erupted from the impact, Arthur said.
  — Kelli Smith, Dallas News, 20 Sep. 2021
• The group found that 83% of surface waters tested contained traces of least one PFAS.
  — Drew Kann, ajc, 19 Oct. 2022
• Wednesday evening said conditions over the next few days and the weekend could help crews get the blaze more contained.
  — Christal Hayes, USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2021
• The company sold products that were moldy and contained amounts of THC two to three times higher than the limit, the board found.
  — Laurel Andrews, Anchorage Daily News, 16 Dec. 2017
• By contrast, clumping bamboo tends to stick to a contained area.
  — New York Times, 2 June 2022
• Six additional contained fires can also be found in the northern part of the state.
  — Sarah Gibbens, National Geographic, 5 Dec. 2017
• The tension is added to because the action takes place within two contained spaces – the SAPO office and the aircraft.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 25 Oct. 2022
• The blaze, dubbed the Sandalwood Fire, was 10% percent contained Thursday night.
  — Stefanie Dazio, Fox News, 12 Oct. 2019
• But carbon markets do not exist in such a contained place.
  — Nick Martin, The New Republic, 22 Apr. 2021
• Few forest fires: Outside of the Springs Fire, only a handful of small or contained fires are burning.
  — Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 25 Aug. 2019
• But the factors behind this calamity seem less contained.
  — Popular Science, 18 Sep. 2020
• Some noted the fridge in Bedford-Stuyvesant contained sausage even though Adams is vegan.
  — Ryan W. Miller, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
• The 2.5-square-mile fire was 60 percent contained Wednesday morning.
  — CBS News, 28 June 2017
• The fire was 65 percent contained and colder, moister weather was helping.
  — Robert Jablon, Houston Chronicle, 23 Dec. 2017
• Italy has also seen a pick up in new cases, albeit more contained than elsewhere.
  — Rodrigo Orihuela, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2020
• Curtis likes one named Gowdy, which is smaller and easier to fit in a contained landscape.
  — Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2020
• Heap leaching is similar to in-situ leaching, but the difference is that all of the fluid is applied in the open air and is less contained.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2021
• Although, if your favorite part of the franchise is tense arguments between people forced to stay in a contained space, this is the spinoff for you.
  — Ashley Ray-Harris, Vulture, 13 Apr. 2021
• During a short, contained event like the Boston Marathon bombing, a leader might set the tone definitively.
  — Douglas Starr, The New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2020
• For one thing, there was very little random, cringey dancing; for another, the singing was more contained, less showy.
  — Jason Kehe, Wired, 19 Jan. 2022
• Rogowski brings something unstable and dangerous to the part and so, in a more contained way, does Beer.
  — Mark Olsen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2021
• Tons of bonus square footage was added to create a pavilion-style extension and a self-contained studio with a private kitchen and bathroom.
  — Lauren Smith, House Beautiful, 21 Aug. 2015
• Though debt service costs remain contained for now, rising borrowing costs for indebted governments threatened the eurozone with a breakup in the early part of the last decade.
  — Christopher Rugaber, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2022

Last Updated: 20 Oct 2024