Example sentences for: imprisoned

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

  • PT) for India to respond to demands, namely the release of a Kashmiri separatist and religious leader imprisoned there since 1994, the LAT reports.

  • Two years later, the men who went home are informed of what happened after they boarded the plane: Police discovered their leftover hashish (purchased for a ridiculously low sum in American dollars and tossed into the garbage as they were leaving) and imprisoned the remaining Yank.

  • There are underdogs of a kind in his books--McCoy in Bonfire and the good family man Conrad Hensley in A Man in Full . But what horrifies the reader is that these sympathetic figures should sink into America's degraded lumpenproletariat . The lower orders in Wolfe's novels, such as those who populate the jail where Conrad Hensley is imprisoned, are barely above the level of animals.

  • During the seven-year “reign of the colonels,” as the succeeding years are known, political parties were dissolved, the press was censored, and left-wing sympathizers were exiled, tortured, and imprisoned.

  • But the history of the past decade suggests the reverse: It is Tudjman who has been flexible enough to triumph, and Milosevic who has been imprisoned by ideology.


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