Sentences with circumscribe
cir·cum·scribe
C c - The army evidently fears that, under him, its activities would be severely circumscribed. [be VERB-ed]
- To circumscribe a city on a map.
- Not surprisingly, photography was to circumscribe the first years of Picasso's and Maar's affair.
- Although we tend to circumscribe the sexual problems of men on the genital functions.
- It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].
- Her social activities are circumscribed by school regulations.
- And because market-led growth creates winners and losers, trying to circumscribe politics necessarily marginalises large swathes of society.
- Others less felicitous in an attempt to circumscribe the changing vocabulary of commentators and reporters.
- To circumscribe the area of a science.