Example sentences for: imprisoned

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

  • According to CTC talking points for the CSG in June 1999, more than 40 members of al Qaeda had been imprisoned over the past year.

  • But Karen E. Quiñones Miller, a staff writer at the Philadelphia Inquirer who is writing a book on Johnson, says that while St. Clair was in fact imprisoned for eight months, it was during 1929, before the fight started for control of the Harlem racket.

  • Hundreds of Covenanters were imprisoned and executed.

  • There are front-page wrap-ups of Monday's Egyptian horror at the WP , NYT , and USAT . The big news there is that Egypt's largest fundamentalist terrorist group has claimed credit for the atrocity, saying that it was undertaken to seize hostages to trade for the cleric imprisoned in the U.S. for plotting to blow up NYC landmarks.

  • Next door at number 9 are plaques to political heroes Mihály Táncsics and Lajos Kossuth, both imprisoned here in the 1830s and 1840s for their nationalist beliefs.


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