IMPRISON in a Sentence

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50 example sentences for IMPRISON, such as:

1. He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.
2. Her fear virtually imprisoned her in her home.
3. All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy.
4. During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
5. After a period of imprisonment she renounced terrorism.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPRISON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
imprison
 v.  put or keep in prison or a place like a prison
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  They could and did imprison citizens for any cause, or no cause, seize their property, hang them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
2  But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1
3  Within the blind sides they stealthily imprison chosen men picked out one by one, and fill the vast cavern of its womb full with armed soldiery.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
4  And Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
5  I feared that 'visiting the sick and the imprisoned' was not your proper role.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  He was imprisoned and promises to fight the case on trial.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In VII
7  He lay, for the most part, in a quiet stupor; for the laws of a powerful and well-knit frame would not at once release the imprisoned spirit.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
8  All closely imprisoned forces rend and destroy.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
9  You have been brought there to personate someone, and the real person is imprisoned in this chamber.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES
10  Here he kept his wife imprisoned in her room while he, disguised in a beard, followed Dr. Mortimer to Baker Street and afterwards to the station and to the Northumberland Hotel.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15. A Retrospection
11  I am not going there to be imprisoned," said Dantes; "it is only used for political prisoners.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8. The Chateau D'If.
12  Then the foolish criminal is taken, imprisoned, interrogated, confronted, confounded, condemned, and cut off by hemp or steel; or if she be a woman of any consideration, they lock her up for life.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 52. Toxicology.
13  He knows well that I am imprisoned; and as he has done it himself, and has doubtless his own motives for it, he would only deceive me if I trusted him fully with the facts.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
14  The evening was now drawing close, and well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then imprisoned there, would take new freedom and could in any of many forms elude all pursuit.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
15  Candide, driven from terrestrial paradise, walked a long while without knowing where, weeping, raising his eyes to heaven, turning them often towards the most magnificent of castles which imprisoned the purest of noble young ladies.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In II
Example Sentence:
1  During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
2  Last year, a civil servant was imprisoned for leaking a document to the press.
3  Her fear virtually imprisoned her in her home.
4  Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or imprisoned in recent weeks.
5  The president, who imprisoned thousands of opponents after an attempted coup in 2016 and rigged the constitution, has a strained relationship with Germany.
6  The Act states that anyone committing the offence is liable to imprisonment.
7  Many writers, threatened with imprisonment, have defected to the West.
8  The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment.
9  He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.
10  He was given one month's imprisonment without the option of a fine.
11  She was sentenced to five years imprisonment for manslaughter.
12  After a period of imprisonment she renounced terrorism.
13  The former telecommunications magnate is now living overseas, mostly in Dubai and Montenegro, to avoid imprisonment on a corruption conviction.
14  He was not willing to incarcerate the civil rights workers because their imprisonment could serve the cause.
15  He is accused of an armed attempt to overturn the constitutional order; if he is convicted he could face life imprisonment.