How to Use imprison in a Sentence

imprison

verb
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  • He was imprisoned for murder.
  • He has threatened to imprison his political opponents.
  • If found guilty, he could be imprisoned for up to 10 years.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Dozens of them have been imprisoned for speaking out against the war.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 14 May 2024
  • You can now be imprisoned for up to six months in Britain just for doing that.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
  • Someone had to be blamed for killing the Minotaur, so the labyrinth builder, Daedelus, and his son Icarus were imprisoned.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In 1981, there was a one in three likelihood for a Black man to be imprisoned.
    — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The National Guard was brought in and helped imprison Black people.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
  • British sailors overtook the ship, imprisoned its captain and crew and seized the cargo.
    — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has been imprisoned since the start of the war in Ukraine.
    — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
  • The point of all this equipment is not to imprison you with tools and technique, but to use them to open your senses for the coffee to come.
    — Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2020
  • To imprison someone, the person needs to be summoned first.
    — Vulture, 19 July 2022
  • Many of them are imprisoned in jails in Panama and Colombia.
    — Photovogue, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2024
  • He could be imprisoned for up to 17 years if convicted on each of those charges.
    — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
  • Powers managed to eject and survive, but was imprisoned in the USSR for two years.
    — Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The last scene in the final episode was of Mizu sailing away on a ship bound for London, Fowler imprisoned below her.
    — Valerie Wu, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Black men are still imprisoned at four times the rate of white men, but the disparity used to be much higher.
    — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The activists seem to mourn the very idea of narrative: the hope of a human tale that doesn’t imprison life within its limits.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • He was charged with using fraud or deceit to falsely imprison the woman in June 2019.
    — CBS News, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Anyone who lies on the form could be convicted of a felony, fined up to $5,000 and imprisoned for up to five years for voter fraud.
    — Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Lomeli was charged with using fraud or deceit to falsely imprison the woman in June 2019.
    — NBC News, 24 Jan. 2021
  • The boy, who is living in Northern Ireland, said he would be imprisoned or killed if he's sent back to Iran.
    — Fox News, 13 May 2024
  • Clark was demonized in the press and imprisoned for murder.
    — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But that doesn’t mean that the bartender doesn’t get summarily turned into a tiger and imprisoned in a zoo for the rest of her life.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
  • The Fear of 13 is about a man who was wrongfully imprisoned on death row for 22 years — also a true story.
    — Lily Ford, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
  • But to imprison someone who is protesting outside the jail raises a lot of questions.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 July 2022
  • Trump has called for U.S. protestors to be imprisoned for 10 years.
    — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2024
  • His father and brother were both imprisoned by the Israelis.
    — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
  • In the past, parents who refused to send their kids faced jail time, including 19 Hopi men who were imprisoned at Alcatraz for the crime of not letting go of their children.
    — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Roberson is one of many people who have been imprisoned for injuries to a child that prosecutors argue resulted from violent shaking.
    — Jeff Kukucka, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2024

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