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.

  • There has been a lot of sociological literature written about the formation of gangs in prisons as a means of surviving incarceration in the United States.

  • In his answer to the voting felons question, Gore implied that the disproportionately high incarceration rate for African-Americans was principally the result of bias, which is preposterous.

  • The War on Drugs has been raging through my entire lifetime, and despite hundreds of billions of tax dollars, the triumphant propaganda of the DEA, and at least seven administrations, drugs are absolutely everywhere, and the United States has the biggest per-capita drug-related incarceration rate this side of Hell.

  • 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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