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Example sentences for: imprisonment

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So essential to adult days of imprisonment,
"The Pope Stops the Hangman" was the main headline in at least two papers; and front-page cartoons included one in Milan's Corriere della Sera showing the pope sticking his crook into the back of a black-hooded executioner with his hands up, and another in Rome's La Repubblica with him unplugging an electric chair while telling the still strapped-in murderer, "I have commuted the death penalty to life imprisonment, so you will have all the time you need to repent."
In his view, pachucos liked to stay in the jaula (cage, jail) so that they could “accumulate these ‘rays’ as souvenirs of their imprisonment” (1971, 142).
When a troubled and illiterate 19-year-old can receive life imprisonment for committing three muggings, it seems laughably irrelevant to focus on courtroom procedures.
The paintings usually depict an event survived or celebrated, an illness, an operation, imprisonment, or having received a passport to the United States, or they may depict a person praying to the saint.