house arrest

noun

: confinement often under guard to one's house or quarters instead of in prison

Examples of house arrest in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Its namesake was astronomer Galileo Galilei, who spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest for heresy for his findings supporting Copernicus’ theory that the sun is the center of the solar system. —Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 8 Dec. 2025

Flavio Bolsonaro on Tuesday visited his father at Federal Police headquarters in Brasilia, where Jair Bolsonaro has been in custody since late November after using a soldering iron to tamper with an ankle monitor he'd been ordered to wear while on house arrest. —Arkansas Online, 7 Dec. 2025

Orr served five months in jail, in addition to house arrest, before charges were dropped against him in 2019. —Dejanay Booth-Singleton, CBS News, 5 Dec. 2025

Kimberly is now on house arrest, and as a condition of her release, she will be required to wear a GPS monitoring bracelet at all times. —Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 4 Dec. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1810, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for house arrest

• abreast
• accessed
• addressed
• appressed
• armrest
• assessed
• attest
• backrest
• behest
• bequest
• caressed
• celeste