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Examples of confinement in a Sentence
The dog was kept in confinement until it was determined to be healthy.
He remained with his wife during her confinement.
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No longer in confinement, Sawyer was reduced to the rank of private and will receive a bad conduct discharge from the Corps.
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In 1990, after months in solitary confinement, Allen and five other inmates escaped from the Joliet Correctional Center.
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As part of Stalin's campaign to suppress the truth, she was taken to the Soviet Union and sentenced to 10 years in a gulag, six of them in solitary confinement, for assisting with Hitler's bridgework.
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And not only that, Moore is automatically kept in solitary confinement 23 hours a day, an action proved to be especially cruel to those with intellectual disabilities.
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Many such prisoners are so difficult that they are held in solitary confinement.
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After a week, Bekali went to his first stint in solitary confinement.
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After a week, Bekali went to his first stint in solitary confinement.
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She was detained in 1969 under anti-terrorism laws, spending 17 months in solitary confinement.
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Origin and Etymology of confinement
confinement Synonyms
Synonyms
captivity, immurement, impoundment, imprisonment, incarceration, internment, prison;
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CONFINEMENT Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of confinement for English Language Learners
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: the act of confining someone or something : the state of being confined
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: the time when a woman is giving birth to a baby
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confinement
noun
con·fine·ment
legal Definition of confinement
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: the act of confining
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: the state of being confined
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