IMPRISONMENT in a Sentence

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50 example sentences for IMPRISONMENT, such as:

1. He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.
2. Her fear virtually imprisoned her in her home.
3. During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
4. After a period of imprisonment she renounced terrorism.
5. The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPRISONMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
imprisonment
 n.  confinement; putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  I claim," said Athelstane, "an honourable imprisonment, with due care of my board and of my couch, as becomes my rank, and as is due to one who is in treaty for ransom.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
2  The solemn procession, headed by Baddeley, of tea-board, urn, and cake-bearers, made its appearance, and delivered her from a grievous imprisonment of body and mind.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
3  As it was, he suffered a long term of imprisonment and afterwards returned to England a morose and disappointed man.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
4  But Beppo was condemned to a year's imprisonment, and in the meanwhile his six busts were scattered over London.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS
5  Since my imprisonment," said Faria, "I have thought over all the most celebrated cases of escape on record.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16. A Learned Italian.
6  I had a similar attack the year previous to my imprisonment.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17. The Abbe's Chamber.
7  He was now, as we have said, three-and-thirty years of age, and his fourteen years' imprisonment had produced a great transformation in his appearance.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22. The Smugglers.
8  His physical strength and agility during the first days of his imprisonment were such that he seemed not to know what fatigue and sickness meant.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XIII
9  And this not only stayed with him during the whole of his imprisonment, but even grew in strength as the hardships of his position increased.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XII
10  Pierre felt that that fatal force which had crushed him during the executions, but which he had not felt during his imprisonment, now again controlled his existence.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XIV
11  The history of Athos's imprisonment was then related to them; and as they were really gentlemen, they pronounced the host in the wrong.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 27 THE WIFE OF ATHOS
12  OUR FRIEND will see you soon, and he will only see you to release you from that imprisonment in which your safety required you should be concealed.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 61 THE CARMELITE CONVENT AT BETHUNE
13  The young priest was condemned to ten years of imprisonment, and to be branded.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 65 TRIAL
14  After the mortal silence of his long imprisonment Zeena's volubility was music in his ears.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
15  It was the one consolation of Jurgis' long imprisonment that now he had time to look at his baby.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11
Example Sentence:
1  The Act states that anyone committing the offence is liable to imprisonment.
2  Many writers, threatened with imprisonment, have defected to the West.
3  The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment.
4  He faced imprisonment for contempt of court.
5  He was given one month's imprisonment without the option of a fine.
6  She was sentenced to five years imprisonment for manslaughter.
7  After a period of imprisonment she renounced terrorism.
8  The former telecommunications magnate is now living overseas, mostly in Dubai and Montenegro, to avoid imprisonment on a corruption conviction.
9  He was not willing to incarcerate the civil rights workers because their imprisonment could serve the cause.
10  He is accused of an armed attempt to overturn the constitutional order; if he is convicted he could face life imprisonment.
11  During the war, he was imprisoned as an enemy alien.
12  Last year, a civil servant was imprisoned for leaking a document to the press.
13  Her fear virtually imprisoned her in her home.
14  Thousands of dissidents have been interrogated or imprisoned in recent weeks.
15  The president, who imprisoned thousands of opponents after an attempted coup in 2016 and rigged the constitution, has a strained relationship with Germany.