imprison
verb
im·pris·on
im-ˈpri-zᵊn 
imprisoned; imprisoning; imprisons
: to put in or as if in prison : confine
Synonyms
Examples of imprison in a Sentence
He was imprisoned for murder.
He has threatened to imprison his political opponents.
Recent Examples on the Web
Ringgold was an impassioned defender of Black activist, scholar, and author Angela Davis, who was arrested by the FBI in 1970 on charges of kidnapping and conspiracy to commit murder; imprisoned for nine weeks in New York City; and eventually acquitted on all charges.
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Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024
McGee had been imprisoned in Virginia on an unrelated crime, NBC New York reported.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2024
The two have already been imprisoned for over two years since their arrest in a Detroit warehouse days after the shooting.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
According to the president of the Cuban American Bar Association, Javier Alejandro Ley-Soto, the group’s lawyers are representing 52 men and women imprisoned during the July 11 protests.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
Once again, generative AI, rather than allowing the imagination to take flight, imprisons it within a formalization of society’s dumber impulses.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 3 Apr. 2024
For more than 20 years, Lyle and Erik were imprisoned separately, with Lyle in Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California, and Erik about 500 miles away at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County.
—Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
The wizard Merlin imprisons an engineer named Hank Morgan, who has accidentally travelled from nineteenth-century America to sixth-century Camelot.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
The colonial government quickly retaliated, executed 40 of the rebels, imprisoned another 300, tracked down Chilembwe along the Mulanje Mountains near the
Mozambique border and shot him dead.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
Emma Specter, Vogue, 15 Apr. 2024
McGee had been imprisoned in Virginia on an unrelated crime, NBC New York reported.
—Dennis Romero, NBC News, 14 Apr. 2024
The two have already been imprisoned for over two years since their arrest in a Detroit warehouse days after the shooting.
—Ray Sanchez, CNN, 9 Apr. 2024
According to the president of the Cuban American Bar Association, Javier Alejandro Ley-Soto, the group’s lawyers are representing 52 men and women imprisoned during the July 11 protests.
—Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
Once again, generative AI, rather than allowing the imagination to take flight, imprisons it within a formalization of society’s dumber impulses.
—Mia Sato, The Verge, 3 Apr. 2024
For more than 20 years, Lyle and Erik were imprisoned separately, with Lyle in Mule Creek State Prison in Ione, California, and Erik about 500 miles away at Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility in San Diego County.
—Jessica Sager, Peoplemag, 3 Apr. 2024
The wizard Merlin imprisons an engineer named Hank Morgan, who has accidentally travelled from nineteenth-century America to sixth-century Camelot.
—Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2024
The colonial government quickly retaliated, executed 40 of the rebels, imprisoned another 300, tracked down Chilembwe along the Mulanje Mountains near the
Mozambique border and shot him dead.
—Mark Jenkins, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Apr. 2024
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“Imprison.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/imprison. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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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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