Example sentences for: incarceration

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

  • Stoltzfus, writing of the 2,000 Berlin women who marched down Rosenstrasse in 1943 to protest the incarceration of their Jewish husbands, sees that his case is something less than a study in pure virtue: Germans cared nothing for Jews unless self-interest intervened.

  • I think it is perfectly respectable for you to use your results to say that all those who have been pointing to overall demographic shifts, or changing police tactics, or increasing incarceration rates are missing a key factor.

  • Having given more than $1 billion in aid to Eastern Europe, Soros is now spending tens of millions of dollars in the United States to promote medical marijuana, rights for legal immigrants, alternatives to incarceration, and better care for the dying.

  • The 1994 edition does note, in passing, that the U.S. incarceration rate, 4.55 people per 100,000, is "ten times higher than that of Japan, Sweden, Ireland, and the Netherlands."

  • Euripides might feel at home editing the tabloids this month, what with murder-suicide (Phil Hartman and his wife, Brynn), internecine family warfare (the Sinatras), incarceration for wife beating (Tommy Lee), and bizarre behavior (Charlie Sheen and Farrah Fawcett).


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