Example sentences for: confinement

How can you use “confinement” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The NYT lead about the World Trade Center sentencing reports that federal judge Kevin Duffy sentenced Ramzi Yousef to 240 years in prison and urged that he spend it all in solitary confinement, without phone privileges.

  • In a class action that concluded in a settlement at the end of 2000, he succeeded in changing the oppressive conditions of confinement in Philadelphia's prisons.

  • Kept in solitary confinement 23 hours a day in 7-by-12 cells, the men can not even look into the eyes of another prisoner.

  • The NYT and USAT top fronts feature stories about yesterday's court proceeding in Arkansas in which a twelve-year-old and a fourteen-year-old were given the strictest sentence available to juveniles, for shooting to death four students and a teacher: confinement in a juvenile detention center until age 18.

  • Castro and 26 of his rebels were sent here after the storming of the Moncada Barracks; their ward and the cell in which Castro was kept in solitary confinement have been reconstructed.


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