How to Use house arrest in a Sentence

house arrest

noun

• Holmes had asked the court for a sentence of 18 months of house arrest.
  — Kc Baker, Peoplemag, 23 Nov. 2022
• He was placed on house arrest and is due back in court on June 30.
  — Paul Best, Fox News, 24 Apr. 2021
• Williams will spend the first year of that sentence on house arrest.
  — Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Jan. 2022
• The men were placed on house arrest and are being tracked by GPS.
  — Adam Sabes, Fox News, 14 Apr. 2022
• The fifth detainee had been on house arrest before the deal went down.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2023
• Due to Sorokin's house arrest, the event was held on the rooftop of her apartment building.
  — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 6 June 2024
• Zvonko spent eight years in prison, and two under house arrest.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 22 June 2023
• Three have been released on bail, and one has been confined to house arrest.
  — Andy Greenberg, WIRED, 13 Dec. 2022
• Peña pleaded guilty in 2012 to passport fraud and served six months of house arrest.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2020
• Marks said his client could be placed on house arrest until the case is resolved.
  — Tracy Neal, Arkansas Online, 26 Sep. 2023
• He is braced for the likelihood that, at the very least, they will be put back under house arrest.
  — Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2024
• Galileo was sentenced to house arrest for life for saying the Earth went around the sun, a heresy in the 17th century.
  — Ron Grossman, chicagotribune.com, 23 Sep. 2020
• Davis can await trial under house arrest if able to post bail, the judge ruled.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 9 Jan. 2024
• Centeno found himself in and out of jail or house arrest.
  — Stephanie Casanova, chicagotribune.com, 13 Sep. 2021
• He was placed on house arrest in 2020 and released later that year.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
• The agents brought her back to her house after 17 hours, but she was put under house arrest for 10 days.
  — Dana Priest, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Dec. 2021
• The agents brought her back to her house after 17 hours, but she was put under house arrest for 10 days.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
• Only a last-minute deal to remand the six to a kind of house arrest in Qatar allowed the opening of peace talks on Sept. 12.
  — Najim Rahim, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2020
• Steel pleaded with Judge Glanville to release his client to house arrest.
  — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2022
• Robert Brennan of Perryville was ordered to spend the first two years on house arrest.
  — Maryclaire Dale, Baltimore Sun, 31 Mar. 2022
• Most of his key aides are under house arrest or in exile.
  — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 9 June 2021
• A year of what feels like house arrest for a lot of us has curbed conversation.
  — Washington Post, 9 June 2021
• But many are still under house arrest, unable to leave the kingdom.
  — Karen Elliott House, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2022
• The Stanford sailing coach was fired and sentenced to house arrest.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2021
• The Stanford sailing coach was fired and sentenced to house arrest.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
• The captain and three others were rescued by the coast guard, brought to shore, charged with a range of crimes, and put under house arrest.
  — Ian Urbina, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• Each was released from Evin Prison and placed under house arrest last month, an initial step in the deal.
  — John Hudson, Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2023
• Liu will receive a 180-day sentence, while Xu will be sentenced to a year of house arrest.
  — Jakob Rodgers, The Mercury News, 17 Oct. 2024
• So just months before the restaurant’s 2021 opening, he was placed on house arrest—and saw his empire of sober-living homes crumble and his ability to obtain new business licenses blocked because of his felony conviction.
  — Kizzy Cox, Essence, 4 June 2025
• Back at Tsarskoye Selo, the conditions of the Paley family’s house arrest quickly deteriorated.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 June 2025