hemmed
Example Sentences
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When the park opened in 2006, I thought it seemed too flat and shapeless, too hemmed in by Broadway and Spring.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
Minetree has "cracking comic timing", the Independent said, but appeared to be "hemmed in by the Reese Witherspoon impression she's presumably been told to do".
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
Any new tool needs to be easily triggered, avoiding the lengthy arguments among capitals that have hemmed in European action in the past.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
It was whether federal courts, hemmed in by the modern law of habeas corpus, are permitted to say anything meaningful about that possibility at all.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2026
It startled her, that Obinzes mother, fully hemmed into her self-containment, her intense privacy, could cry watching a film.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
