She was too arrogant, they groused, unwilling to keep her pedantry, as professor of Communist philosophy and sociology, safely confined to academia.

Evidently the reaction products had been safely confined within the test booth.

Eyes straight ahead, Worf growled, "Interrogation will begin immediately after you have been safely confined."

And these were now safely confined within the magnetic field of the stone jars in the cellar.

Now safely confined in the cell, she had taken a seat on the edge of the chamber's single narrow bunk.

Nuclear annihilation cannot be safely confined to the outer boroughs.

He would go and talk with Honakura as soon as he had seen her safely confined aboard Sapphire.

Substances that are lethal if inhaled, imbibed or touched may do no harm at all when safely confined to a well-run tip.

Hunter and his staff are safely confined to Pearl Harbor, working around-the-clock in an attempt to clear up the puzzle.

You wouldn't call in a soul-searching Wallander type if your car was stolen: but safely confined to page and screen he has become the world's favourite cop.