How to Use imprison in a Sentence

imprison

verb

• He was imprisoned for murder.
• He has threatened to imprison his political opponents.
• If found guilty, he could be imprisoned for up to 10 years.
  — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• You can now be imprisoned for up to six months in Britain just for doing that.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 8 May 2023
• Someone had to be blamed for killing the Minotaur, so the labyrinth builder, Daedelus, and his son Icarus were imprisoned.
  — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 5 Jan. 2024
• In 1981, there was a one in three likelihood for a Black man to be imprisoned.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 30 Nov. 2023
• The National Guard was brought in and helped imprison Black people.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 10 Oct. 2023
• British sailors overtook the ship, imprisoned its captain and crew and seized the cargo.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024
• The political activist Vladimir Kara-Murza has been imprisoned since the start of the war in Ukraine.
  — Michael Kimmage, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
• The last scene in the final episode was of Mizu sailing away on a ship bound for London, Fowler imprisoned below her.
  — Valerie Wu, Variety, 7 Nov. 2023
• Black men are still imprisoned at four times the rate of white men, but the disparity used to be much higher.
  — Marshall Ingwerson, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Dec. 2023
• Anyone who lies on the form could be convicted of a felony, fined up to $5,000 and imprisoned for up to five years for voter fraud.
  — Jeffrey Schweers, Orlando Sentinel, 8 Jan. 2024
• Clark was demonized in the press and imprisoned for murder.
  — David Robert Grimes, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2023
• But that doesn’t mean that the bartender doesn’t get summarily turned into a tiger and imprisoned in a zoo for the rest of her life.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2024
• His father and brother were both imprisoned by the Israelis.
  — Sarah Dadouch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2023
• Cohen was imprisoned in part because of the hush payments.
  — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 4 Apr. 2023
• Activists who try to support LGBT people could be charged and imprisoned for 10 years.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• Many of Nixon’s top aides had stepped down and were eventually imprisoned.
  — Hillel Italie, Chicago Tribune, 2 Apr. 2023
• Hasan gained the confidence of Mustansir in Cairo but aroused the suspicion of Badr, who imprisoned him.
  — Nicholas Liu, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• Sometimes, the cost to fight might be too high, as the government in power could imprison or execute anyone who tries to change the system.
  — Michael Allen, Fortune, 30 Sep. 2023
• The commander of Alexei’s unit was also an inmate, who had been imprisoned on drug charges in Siberia.
  — Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• One of her friend’s cousins was killed by the Israel Defense Forces, and many others were wrongfully imprisoned.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
• Carter, a middleweight boxer, had been imprisoned since 1966 over the murders in a Paterson, N.J., bar.
  — Greg Moran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2023
• The report discussed how for Black men, the likelihood of being imprisoned has decreased.
  — Rayna Reid Rayford, Essence, 30 Nov. 2023
• Men who refuse to register with the Selective Service may be imprisoned or fined.
  — Juan Quiroz, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2024
• Tamara has known poverty and abuse all her life — first at the hands of her grandmother, and later at the hands of traffickers who imprisoned, enslaved and sold her.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 May 2023
• You would be tried and, if found guilty, imprisoned and/or executed.
  — Scott Lafee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Oct. 2023
• Whelan is still imprisoned in Russia, while Griner and Reed were released in prisoner swaps in 2022.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Before the war, a vast majority were fined, not imprisoned.
  — Neil MacFarquhar, BostonGlobe.com, 1 May 2023
• The duo temporarily called a truce when Giudice was imprisoned for fraud, but things between them began to decline again in the years that followed.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024