INCARCERATE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for INCARCERATE, such as:

1. They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.
2. The same evening Andrea was incarcerated in the Conciergerie.
3. The conversation naturally fell upon the incarceration of the poor man.
4. He was not willing to incarcerate the civil rights workers because their imprisonment could serve the cause.
5. In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCARCERATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
incarcerate
 v.  imprison; put into jail; shut up or inclose
Classic Sentence:
1  The same evening Andrea was incarcerated in the Conciergerie.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 98. The Bell and Bottle Tavern.
2  In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
3  What he heard his father say was some of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been incarcerated in his room.
Metamorphosis By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In II
4  on the outside of the south wall of that place of incarceration on civil process, the day after tomorrow, at seven in the evening, precisely, my object in this epistolary communication is accomplished.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 49. I AM INVOLVED IN MYSTERY
5  The conversation naturally fell upon the incarceration of the poor man.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 23 THE RENDEZVOUS
Example Sentence:
1  He was not willing to incarcerate the civil rights workers because their imprisonment could serve the cause.
2  They were incarcerated for the duration of the war.