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
• Dozens of them have been imprisoned for speaking out against the war.
  — Simon Shuster, TIME, 14 May 2024
• 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
• To imprison someone, the person needs to be summoned first.
  — Vulture, 19 July 2022
• He could be imprisoned for up to 17 years if convicted on each of those charges.
  — Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 25 June 2024
• Powers managed to eject and survive, but was imprisoned in the USSR for two years.
  — Jim Clash, Forbes, 17 Aug. 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
• The boy, who is living in Northern Ireland, said he would be imprisoned or killed if he's sent back to Iran.
  — Fox News, 13 May 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
• But to imprison someone who is protesting outside the jail raises a lot of questions.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 19 July 2022
• Trump has called for U.S. protestors to be imprisoned for 10 years.
  — Orlando Sentinel and South Florida Sun Sentinel Editorial Boards, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 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
• He was sentenced to 25 years in prison for treason for speaking out against Putin’s war in Ukraine and had spent two and a half years imprisoned in Russia.
  — Helen Regan, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
• Activists who try to support LGBT people could be charged and imprisoned for 10 years.
  — Natalia Abbakumova, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
• With most of his potential challengers dead, imprisoned or exiled, Putin won in a landslide with 87.3% of the vote.
  — Lou Robinson, CNN, 8 July 2024
• Their characters don’t struggle against the conventions that imprison them, and the plots are more about what doesn’t happen than what does.
  — Max Norman, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
• In the meantime, of course, Putin continues to imprison those who oppose him and his war inside Russia.
  — Jo-Ann Mort, The New Republic, 31 Mar. 2022
• He was sentenced to death in 2009 and is currently imprisoned.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 4 Aug. 2024
• The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned.
  — David Gilbert, WIRED, 28 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024