How to Use incarcerate in a Sentence

incarcerate

verb

• 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
• Williams was incarcerated at the time of the February phone call.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• Maryland incarcerates children of color at one of the highest rates in the country.
  — Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
• 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
• 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
• Was that concern tinged with fears about the kind of people who might be incarcerated, and their families?
  — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
• Morgan is the fourth person to die while incarcerated in Alaska so far this year.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 14 June 2023
• But the charges are dropped after a fourth woman is murdered while Hendee is incarcerated.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2024
• Grant made sure some of their parents who were incarcerated got photos of their kids all dolled up in dresses and tuxedos.
  — Brennon Dixson, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2023
• In early July, he was stabbed 10 times at the prison in Florida where he is incarcerated.
  — Rob Frehse, CNN, 27 July 2023
• The men, who were incarcerated on a range of felony charges, are believed to have escaped through the roof of the detention center, according to the sheriff's office.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 5 May 2023
• Unique’s brother, who had tried to look out for his nephews, was now incarcerated himself.
  — Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 9 Aug. 2023
• And as in the times of slavery, farm and incarcerated workers have used gardening as a way to resist their oppression.
  — Time, 5 Oct. 2023
• The group also expects 40 new jobs to at-risk and formerly incarcerated youth to come out of this investment.
  — Evan Lasseter, ajc, 17 July 2023
• After he was taken away, his wife and 10 children had to sell the farm and were soon incarcerated themselves at Gila River near Phoenix.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• At that point, Williams and other defendants may have been incarcerated for over 15 months.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2023
• There, others incarcerated in the same housing unit said the 24-year-old often entertained them by talking and singing all day.
  — Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2024
• Lee, incarcerated for burglary and safecracking charges, was found Wednesday around 350 miles southwest of the prison.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 30 May 2023
• After Jenkins was incarcerated, his wife gave Bates a call– and asked him to represent her husband.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 14 July 2023
• One of them, Albertus Murray, who is Black, said he was first incarcerated in 1991 and served a total of three stints in Arkansas prisons.
  — Tony Holt, arkansasonline.com, 5 Dec. 2023
• The office filed a motion arguing Puryear’s lawsuit, which was filed while he was still incarcerated, was now moot because he has been released.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2023
• And then also there’s the symbolism of having what many people would probably consider a weapon of the state on the site of a former prison that incarcerated a lot of people of color.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 11 Oct. 2023
• Serrano was incarcerated for 17 years and spent nearly two of them at Rikers.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 5 Dec. 2023
• What formerly incarcerated people need as much as anything is a stable job, and that’s what Miles of Freedom works to provide in Dallas.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Jan. 2024
• Young Thug, of course, does not appear in the video as the rapper remains incarcerated, awaiting trial on state racketeering charges.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 17 July 2023
• Williams, who has been formerly incarcerated in Arizona state prisons, said temperatures in the cells commonly reach the mid to high 90s in the summer.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
• The labor force includes those at least 16 years old and not institutionalized, such as those who are incarcerated or in the military.
  — Ralph Chapoco, al, 21 Aug. 2023
• According to the judges’ ruling in May, Van Houten worked as a tutor and earned her master’s degree in humanities while incarcerated.
  — Jeremy Childs, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024