How to Use incarcerate in a Sentence

incarcerate

verb

• The 46-year-old struggled with schizophrenia and had lost 60 pounds in the three months he was incarcerated.
  — Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 21 July 2025
• The men introduced themselves to me with their names and how many years they had been incarcerated, most in the 10 to 20 range.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 7 June 2023
• But David Sielaff, an attorney with the office, had asked the court to lift the stay and incarcerate Brooks at the hearing, court records show.
  — Stephanie Pagones, Fox News, 1 Dec. 2021
• One of the 12 jurors learned that her son was incarcerated at the same prison as the defendants.
  — Natalie Meade, Rolling Stone, 16 June 2025
• And that deal now means he’ll be incarcerated for two weeks.
  — Andrew Prokop, Vox, 7 Sep. 2018
• Williams was incarcerated at the time of the February phone call.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
• Both Steele and Brown are incarcerated at the D.C. jail, awaiting a trial date to be set.
  — Keith L. Alexander, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• She may be forced to shower in full view of men who are incarcerated.
  — Joel Thayer, Newsweek, 27 Jan. 2025
• Milo was required to spend at least two years in prison on the DUI charge, but he could have been incarcerated for up to 10 years.
  — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 14 June 2025
• Creech, 73, has been incarcerated in Idaho for nearly 50 years, the bulk of that time on death row.
  — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 26 Mar. 2024
• His rivals have their own visions to make a dent in the nation’s incarcerated rate, which ranks as the highest in the world.
  — Elana Schor, chicagotribune.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• At 45, Ceyenne Doroshow, a trans woman, was incarcerated for 28 days in a men’s prison.
  — Hannah Chubb, Marie Claire, 30 Mar. 2018
• Children cannot be incarcerated with adults and the law is silent on where they would be detained.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 14 May 2024
• He was incarcerated at first camp, but there is a schedule and guardrails.
  — Alamin Yohannes, EW.com, 18 May 2024
• In Texas, incarcerated workers were paid two dollars an hour to move the dead.
  — Matthew Desmond, The New York Review of Books, 28 Dec. 2023
• Rodger plays Tommy, an inmate at the prison who has been incarcerated for a decade.
  — Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 June 2025
• The young boy had been incarcerated all alone and sent to Manzanar.
  — Tracy Slater july 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
• Maryland incarcerates children of color at one of the highest rates in the country.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• He was either incarcerated or unable to leave the country for all three of Megan’s World Cup trips.
  — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, 7 July 2019
• There is only one way to keep society safe from someone like Robert Graham and that is to incarcerate him for the rest of his life.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 29 Mar. 2018
• He is now engaged to a woman who also has been incarcerated, and who has a child.
  — John Timpane, Philly.com, 10 July 2018
• Hank Willis Thomas: Thank you, Russell, for reminding me of the fact that my work was speaking to you when you were incarcerated.
  — Ariana Marsh, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
• The second set was composed of detainees who were incarcerated at the jail.
  — Ron Wood, Arkansas Online, 17 Mar. 2023
• The conditions are a far cry from the last time Epstein was incarcerated.
  — Bloomberg News, al.com, 10 July 2019
• The best option, by far, seemed to be people who were incarcerated.
  — New York Times, 4 June 2018
• Her son died in a car crash while she was incarcerated, Townsend said, and she’s lost a number of other friends and family.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 31 May 2023
• The judge allowed the couple to stagger prison terms so their children would not have both parents incarcerated at the same time.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 June 2019
• Since he was no longer incarcerated, his name was removed from the lawsuit.
  — Washington Post, 9 July 2018
• Pulitzer Prize-winning podcaster Maggie Freleng has spent years advocating for the wrongly incarcerated — and her next project is a hell of a tale.
  — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2025
• The Big Ugly Bill allocates $45 billion for more masked thugs and concentration camps, even though fewer than 30% of the incarcerated have any criminal record, and those mostly traffic citations.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2025