Example sentences for: confinement

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

  • The New York Times discussed his "major fractures" and "solitary confinement."

  • 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.

  • A fascinating story describes and denounces solitary confinement, a punishment now inflicted on 8 percent to 10 percent of prison inmates.

  • He spends a month in the hole, then chastises his fellow judges for not considering solitary confinement a "cruel and unusual" punishment.

  • Once we're tuned to this unsettling frequency in de Hooch's work, we notice how many hints of confinement and escape there are in his work.


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