Example sentences for: confinement

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

  • 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.

  • If the extension was unknown, we equated it to extension 10 (confinement to breast tissue and fat).

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

  • 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.


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