Definition of IMPRISON

Examples of imprison in a Sentence

He was imprisoned for murder. He has threatened to imprison his political opponents.

Recent Examples on the Web The country's own national security law has been interpreted broadly in the past to imprison activists, intellectuals and journalists. — James Griffiths, CNN, "China revealed some details of Hong Kong's national security law and it's as bad as critics feared," 22 June 2020 At the opening dinner of the same summit, Bolton says, the U.S. interpreter told him that Trump spoke approvingly of Xi’s decision to imprison more than a million Chinese Uighurs in modern-day concentration camps. — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, "John Bolton’s Epic Score-Settling," 18 June 2020 Reports on the treatment of Uighurs over the past several years have revealed that China has undertaken an effort to persecute and imprison the Muslim minority, as well as members of Falun Gong, Christians, and Tibetan Buddhists. — Nicholas Rowan, Washington Examiner, "State Department warns that China is exporting methods of religious repression," 10 June 2020 If Polo’s body was imprisoned, his mind roamed free. — The Economist, "Home Entertainment Confined in prison, Marco Polo roamed across the world," 23 May 2020 Khamenei was imprisoned six times by the Shah’s secret police, including a stint, in 1974, at a Tehran prison euphemistically named the Joint Anti-Sabotage Committee. — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, "The Twilight of the Iranian Revolution," 18 May 2020 Manafort had been imprisoned since 2018 when he was accused of witness tampering while on bail awaiting trial on bank and tax fraud charges. — Mica Soellner, Washington Examiner, "'This system stinks': Schiff accuses Barr of politicizing DOJ on behalf of Trump after Manafort release," 13 May 2020 Saudi Arabia imprisoned 26 journalists in 2019, according to CPJ tracking. — Lydia Belanger, Fortune, "Coronavirus could spread in prisons where censored journalists are detained," 1 May 2020 Thousands were imprisoned and tortured by PIDE, the secret police, which helped the authoritarian regime to stay in power for four decades. — Marta Vidal, The Christian Science Monitor, "When guns bloomed with flowers: In lockdown, Portugal remembers," 24 Apr. 2020

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