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.
  — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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, The Arizona Republic, 17 Mar. 2021
• The Stanford sailing coach was fired and sentenced to house arrest.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 19 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
• His lawyers also proposed that Combs be under house arrest with 24 hour surveillance.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 13 May 2025
• Given the serious nature of the accusations discussed during the proceeding, the judge could order the defendant be placed on house arrest, in which he would mostly be confined to home.
  — Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 12 May 2025