Example sentences for: imprisoned

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

  • The NYT reports that President Clinton's offer of clemency to imprisoned Puerto Rican nationalists was unanimously opposed by a range of Federal law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI and the Bureau of Prisons.

  • In the 1970s, Karenga himself was imprisoned for ordering and directing the torture of a young woman.

  • Lastly, kids will enjoy the Witch Dungeon Museum where the tour after the show takes them through eerie, re-created cells where the guilty were imprisoned.

  • The Times provides plenty of biographical detail: Tudjman rose to power as a Communist general, in the 1970s and 1980s he was imprisoned for nationalist activities, and he died of cancer-related complications.

  • Excavations in 1987 revealed the cellars where thousands of victims were imprisoned and tortured.


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