Example sentences for: confinement

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

  • 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.

  • He resisted his captors alone and endured years in solitary confinement.

  • The categories are related to the evaluation subquestions; for example, if a subquestion was "How does the Immigration and Naturalization Service monitor the conditions of confinement in privately contracted detention facilities," coding categories might include who is responsible, how these persons get information, what they do with information received, evidence that minimum standards are met, evidence of shortfalls, changes over time in monitoring, and conflicting guidance or responsibilities.

  • The paper said Israel could not "act permissively toward those who are entrusted with its deepest secrets and then decide to breach their commitment," but it deplored the fact that Vanunu has been held in strict solitary confinement for the past 12 years on the insistence of Israeli security services.

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


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