How to use imprison in a sentence

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• After being imprisoned, I had to commend my kids to my mom's safekeeping.From the entry commend
• Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.From the entry matricide
• The murderer was imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure.From the entry at Her Majesty's pleasure
• There is risk of being brutalized, arrested, imprisoned and tortured, all because I want you to know the truth about this matter.From the entry risk
• But other family members, including RFK’s widow Ethel, felt Sirhan should remain imprisoned.2022 January 13, Jake Tapper and Cheri Mossburg, “California Gov. Gavin Newsom denies parole for RFK assassin Sirhan Sirhan”, in CNN…. From the entry ethel
• He was found guilty of fraud, was imprisoned, and spent his final years in penury.2021 December 29, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern”, in Rail, number 947, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire: Bauer Media, →ISSN, →OCLC…. From the entry penury
• The baby is awake, trying to escape the swaddle I have imprisoned her in.2020, Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar, Hamish Hamilton, page 207. From the entry swaddle
• One day he is kidnapped by the police, imprisoned in the red room, and tortured.2015, Hye Seung Chung, David Scott Diffrient, Movie Migrations. From the entry red room
• In Israel, rabbinic courts can imprison men until they acquiesce and grant gets to their wives.2013, Dan Cohn-Sherbok, George D. Chryssides, Dawoud El-Alami, Love, Sex and Marriage, page 143. From the entry get
• They forcefully imprisoned her in a decorative room and brick walled it.2013, Cyril A. Peters, Ignoble Imitation, →ISBN, page 98. From the entry brick wall
• In ALS, the lytico aspect, a sound brain is imprisoned in a paralyzed body.2011 June 30, Robert F. Rogers, Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam, Revised Edition, University of Hawaii Press, →ISBN, page 208. From the entry lytico
• McCoy, who have been imprisoned for the murder of the Klingon chancellor.2003, Paul Ruditis, Star Trek Voyager: Companion, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry murder
• Wrongfully imprisoned action heroes rarely have the time to wait for an appeal.2002, Joe Borgenicht, The Action Hero's Handbook, Quirk Books, page 36. From the entry wrongfully
• This should preclude continued refusal of visas to dissidents and lead to release of those already imprisoned.1974 October 20, Robert C. Toth, “Soviet Jews React Cautiously on Emigration”, in Los Angeles Times, volume XCIII, Los Angeles, Calif.…. From the entry refusednik
• Returning to England, he was there imprisoned, some say for overbusying himself in matters of foreign trade.1964, Ethel Stephens Arnett, From England to North Carolina: Two Special Gifts, page 59. From the entry overbusy
• In a third cage three elderly ladies in raincoats and goloshes were imprisoned.1934, P[amela] L[yndon] Travers, “Full Moon”, in Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins; 1), London: Gerald Howe Ltd […], →OCLC, page 158. From the entry golosh
• It must have been imprisoned in his mouth some time, for no pipe was visible.1907 April, E[dward] M[organ] Forster, chapter III, in The Longest Journey, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I…. From the entry vomit
• This included Bonded by Thorns by Elizabeth Helen, which follows a woman named Rosalina O’Connell whose father has been imprisoned.2025 January 2, Gina Kalsi, “Why are Gen Z obsessed with MONSTER romances? Young readers claim steamy novels about 'hot demonic wolves'…. From the entry Rosalina
• A fortiori, the courts cannot sit in criminal judgment over him and imprison him based on his official acts.2024, Trump v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court No. 23-939), Brief of petitioner. From the entry sit in judgment
• An imprisoned ex-president of Peru was released on humanitarian grounds on Dec. 6, stoking controversy in the Andean nation.2023, Marco Aquino, Sarah Morland, and Isabel Woodford (Reuters), Peruvians divided as ex-president, jailed for massacres, walks free, in…. From the entry Andean
• Federal statutes with vast reach put millions of Americans at risk of being fined or imprisoned, with much damage already done.January 2014, The Felonization of America Right on Crime. From the entry felonization
• In NOEM model, once the superburst occurs the model breaks down and activism overtakes virtually all agents that are not imprisoned.2012, Shanchieh Jay Yang, Ariel M. Greenberg, Mica Endsley, Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling and Prediction, →ISBN. From the entry superburst
• Nations that imprison, torture, assassinate, or drive their writers into exile fall into the deadlands of their own darkness.2011, Ben Okri, A Time For New Dreams, →ISBN. From the entry deadland
• All the netsukes were there, imprisoned for so long.2010, Bernhard Wunderlich, A Science Career Against All Odds. From the entry netsukes
• Acting together, Collectors have imprisoned entire cities in stasis.2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Collectors Codex entry. From the entry neuro-biological
• You are imprisoned by the etiquette of theatre.2009, Jeremy Clarkson, Driven to Distraction, Penguin Books, →ISBN. From the entry shh
• We have already seen, in Chapter II, that Equatoguineans like Ilonbe and Loboch imply that they feel imprisoned.2007, Emily Ann Knudson-Vilaseca, Embodying the Un/home: African Immigration to Portugal and Spain. From the entry Equatoguinean
• Francis Howgill was praemunired in Appleby and imprisoned for life.2000, Rosemary [Anne] Moore, Light in Their Consciences: The Early Quakers in Britain, 1646–1666, University Park, Penn.: Penn State…. From the entry praemunire
• Woulda, coulda, shouldas can imprison a new mother and rob her of all joy and pride at becoming a mother.1997, Vicki Iovine, The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood, page 87. From the entry woulda, coulda, shoulda
• Presently I'm imprisoned at the California Institute for Women and would like to receive my own issues of GCN.1983 August 20, Mary Frances Gonzales, “Come Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 6, page 5. From the entry hip
• We know from history that the Catholic Church has historically murdered, mutilated, castrated, maimed, imprisoned and flogged homosexuals.1981 December 27, John Rupkey, “Leading The Way In Persecution”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 23, page 4. From the entry inquisition
• Maybe she is imprisoned there and cannot get out: it would be a terrible fate, would it not, Signorina?1903, Margaret Sherwood, Daphne, an Autumn Pastoral. From the entry fight shy
• Last year, the rapper had a number of hit singles, including Fefe, with Nicki Minaj, and Stoopid, feating imprisoned rapper Bobby Shmurda.2019 October 3, Jack Williams, “Tell Tale Hit: Tekashi 6ix9ine testimony leads to conviction of two men on racketeering after ‘snitch’…. From the entry feat
• In a classic study imprisoned muggers were asked to rate the muggability of people by simply watching them walk down the street.2017, Michael J. Gelb, The Art of Connection: 7 Relationship-Building Skills Every Leader Needs to Know, page 214. From the entry nonsynchronous
• But in the Muslim world we are dealing with regimes who have banished, imprisoned, silenced or neutralised all opposition, even where this is entirely peaceable.1999 December 29, Faisal Bodi, The Guardian. From the entry peaceable
• The teenage slave needed all the examples he could find of reason winning over power; he was surrounded and imprisoned by the opposite message.1997 [1797], David W. Blight, “Editor's Introduction: The Peculiar Dialogue Between Caleb Bingham and Frederick Douglass”, in Caleb…. From the entry bondsman
• There are situations, historical, personal, sociological, and political as well as psychological, in which whole peoples feel imprisoned in a leaden, unacoustic atmosphere.1990, Victor Howard Carpenter, Stations of the spirit, →ISBN, page 182. From the entry unacoustic
• Well over half of the men currently listed by the Departments of State and Defense have been missing or imprisoned for longer than that.1971 March 23, Joan Vinson (witness), “Statement of Joan Vinson, National Coordinator, National League of Families of American Prisoners…. From the entry missing in action

Meaning of imprison

1. verb To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.

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Questions about imprison in a sentence

How do you use imprison in a sentence?

Imprison is used as a verb. For example: “After being imprisoned, I had to commend my kids to my mom's safekeeping.”

What is a short sentence with imprison?

“The murderer was imprisoned at Her Majesty's pleasure.”

What does imprison mean?

Imprison means to put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.