Confining used in a sentence

Confining in a sentence as an adjective

Offer a variety of pretty pastel and rainbow colors beyond staid and confining old pink.

The comic describes allowing popups, but confining them to within the tab, then allowing you to drag them out to their own window.

[1] The GPLv3 "anti-Tivo-ization" wording is a perfect example that shows that confining your view just to software is myopic.

I'm not sure if there was an implication of psychedelics at Joshua Tree, but this comment in that context would be just as egregiously confining.

Maybe we should expend resources on actual cops patrolling neighborhoods and keeping pedophiles in jail instead of releasing them and confining them into "safe" zones.

> On frameworks: "Why should we use computers like this, simultaneously building a house of cards and confining computing power to that which the programmer can fit in their head?

As much as I now want to see the Disney Princesses do that while in their finest dresses...In the movie, she objects to the sparkly dress because it's too confining and isn't anything like what she wants to wear.

"And on one hand: yeah, cool hack; but I mean, you're running the equivalent of what people would have thought of as a super computer 15 years ago, but web standards are essentially confining you to making toy apps.

I'm not sure I would ever be keen on confining my profiling to a PHP profiler written in PHP, although you do get some similar functionality from some frameworks such as debug mode in the Symfony framework.

What they completely miss however is how much money companies like Samsung make by letting someone else do all the hard design/visionary work for them and by confining themselves solely to the role of the imitator/free rider.

Somehow absurdly long sentences like confining someone in a cage for 5 years or even 10 years is seen as a "short" sentence, I guess because compared to locking people in a cage for 30 or 50 years or outright killing them, it seems lenient in comparison.

It is perfectly obvious that the bird is surrounded by a network of systematically related barriers, no one of which would be the least hindrance to its flight, but which, by their relations to each other, are as confining as the solid walls of a dungeon.