How to Use confinement in a Sentence

confinement

noun

• The dog was kept in confinement until it was determined to be healthy.
• He remained with his wife during her confinement.
• The least costly and least restrictive type of confinement is home confinement.
  — Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
• Granting these men their preferred conditions of confinement would defeat me.
  — Bill Hutchinson, ABC News, 31 Jan. 2022
• And despite my family’s efforts, confinement hadn’t solved my milk problem.
  — Jessamine Chan, Bon Appétit, 8 Feb. 2022
• County data suggest no link between confinement rates and partisan lean.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 25 Jan. 2022
• But Arbery's family balked at the deal, insisting the men shouldn't be allowed to pick the locale of their confinement.
  — NBC News, 4 Feb. 2022
• Its terms include mental health screenings for new inmates, construction of therapeutic housing units, and new standards for solitary confinement and use of force.
  — Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Jan. 2022
• Under the state's First Offender Act, Gray served the first 46 days in confinement in jail, rather than the full five years of her sentence.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 7 Sep. 2024
• After pleading guilty, Mr. Caddle, 44, was released to home confinement and ordered to wear an ankle monitor.
  — New York Times, 31 Jan. 2022
• He has been held in confinement by the Air Force since June.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
• He was sentenced to 25 years, with the first 20 to be served in confinement.
  — Caroline Silva, ajc, 27 Sep. 2022
• Shapiro called for 18 months in home confinement and no prison time for Gabaee.
  — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
• Staley was sentenced last week to 30 days in prison and a year of home confinement for the scheme.
  — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
• This means that inmates in the future could be on home confinement for years.
  — Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
• The mental pressures of confinement wore on the soldiers.
  — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
• In the past couple of years, the abolishment of welfare liens, the solitary confinement bill, the clean slate (bill).
  — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2022
• She’s trapped with her five-year-old son Jack, who was born in confinement and has no concept of the outside world.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Other sentences ranged from 12 to 18 months in prison along with one year of home confinement.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
• Francis, who also pleaded guilty in the case, fled home confinement last year and is now jailed in Venezuela.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
• In the case of Khan, an agreement last year that was kept secret from the jury pledged to reduce his time in confinement.
  — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2022
• In the case of Mr. Khan, an agreement last year that was kept secret from the jury pledged to reduce his time in confinement.
  — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
• The judge gave James Uptmore 36 months of probation, with 21 days of home confinement.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Nov. 2022
• His confinement is abject, but the source of his pain is deeply relatable: grief.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2022
• Experts have warned that the mental health impact of the confinement will be long-lasting.
  — New York Times, 29 June 2022
• He was given home confinement except for school and told to wear a GPS device.
  — Jeremy C. Fox, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Aug. 2022
• The judge said she could be ordered to home confinement, adding that a hearing would be held before that could happen.
  — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
• The bill restricts such confinement to no more than 15 consecutive days and a total of 45 days in a six-month span.
  — Hannah Wiley, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Both Ali and Taherzadeh are to be released to home confinement pending trial.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 19 Apr. 2022
• They were each sentenced to 11 months of home confinement and five years probation.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 10 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024