imprison
verb
im·pris·on
im-ˈpri-zᵊn 
imprisoned; imprisoning; imprisons
: to put in or as if in prison : confine
Examples of imprison in a Sentence
He was imprisoned for murder.
He has threatened to imprison his political opponents.
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The Bush administration initially declined to prosecute him, but this changed under the Obama administration, which imprisoned Kiriakou in 2013 for 30 months.
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Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 20 Dec. 2025
Many of those officers resigned, while several officers in the Atioch and Pittsburg police departments were imprisoned for violating people's civil rights and other offenses.
—Da Lin, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025
The Bush administration initially declined to prosecute him, but this changed under the Obama administration, which imprisoned Kiriakou in 2013 for 30 months.
—Kate Kenny, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
When a grieving college swimmer hunts down the hourglass, chasing closure, a predatory villain begins feeding on his grief, threatening to imprison him inside the hourglass’s landscape of memory and time.
—Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for imprison
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“Imprison.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imprison. Accessed 27 Dec. 2025.
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imprison
verb
im·pris·on
im-ˈpriz-ᵊn
imprisoned; imprisoning
-ˈpriz-(ə-)niŋ
: to put in or as if in prison
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