Example sentences for: imprisoned

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

  • 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.

  • To even for an instant try to intellectually justify killing members of one group simply because other members of that group did unspeakable things--whether that group consists of Serbian civilians or imprisoned SS guards--is lazy thinking.

  • The man, a Vietnamese, is thought to have set up the display to anger certain of his neighboring retailers in the "Little Saigon" neighborhood, home to more than 200,000 Vietnamese Americans, many of whom fled to the U.S. just ahead of communist troops or only after being imprisoned by them for a few years.

  • Hundreds of Covenanters were imprisoned and executed.

  • Especially on a big, competitive story like this one, no one need be imprisoned in some biased reporter's web of falsehoods unless the reporter's biases are comfortably compatible with one's own.


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