Example sentences for: confinement

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

  • Salinas had been held in harsh confinement without conviction for years, and the prosecutor previously assigned to the case had tried to plant a corpse on Salinas' property to frame him.

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

  • In 1869 Y okohama became an international port, and the burgeoning international community quickly spread beyond its confinement to the high ground still known today as the Bluff.

  • The NYT lead explains that at issue is not the strict zoning confinement of adult businesses championed by the Giuliani administration--that has been upheld in court--but rather its attempt to say that a business was adult-oriented if 40 percent or more of its floor space or stock was adults-only.

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


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