Example sentences for: imprisoned

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

  • 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.

  • He died because he had been unjustly imprisoned for five years, which is a subtler kind of foul play.

  • The Soviets themselves imprisoned some 1.5 million Poles in labor camps of their own and eliminated potential “troublemakers” through actions like the Katyn massacre, in which 4,500 Polish military officers were summarily executed.

  • But if the answer is "no"--if we have no obligations to those imprisoned souls--then it seems there can be no moral objection to our trashing Earth, to the point where there will be no future generations.

  • 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.


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