How to Use solitary confinement in a Sentence

solitary confinement

noun

• The first 77 days, he was kept in solitary confinement.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• In some ways, those held in solitary confinement may have been lucky.
  — Gisela Salomon, ajc, 22 Feb. 2023
• From the age of 18, Jackson spent 11 years (the rest of his life) behind bars, with seven and a half of those years in solitary confinement.
  — Safire R. Sostre, Essence, 4 Aug. 2023
• Arrest them all and throw them in the DC gulag in solitary confinement just like J6’ers.
  — Greg Wehner, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2023
• After Warnock was released from solitary confinement, he was sent to a more secure unit in the prison, the G Block.
  — Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 16 May 2024
• In this sense, lockdowns are a form of solitary confinement.
  — Gabrielle Caplan, WIRED, 6 May 2024
• The most recent stint was the 13th time he was placed in solitary confinement, according to Yarmysh.
  — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Despite his pleas for help, he was left in his solitary confinement cell.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2023
• The lawsuit alleges that Gilliam was rarely let out of her solitary confinement cell.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 21 Apr. 2023
• This fall, Sadik was placed in solitary confinement after a dispute with a guard.
  — Sarah Stillman, The New Yorker, 11 Dec. 2023
• Osman said she was held in solitary confinement for over 285 days.
  — Saudi Arabia, Fox News, 7 July 2023
• Both inmates were being housed in solitary confinement at the time.
  — Fox News, 27 Feb. 2023
• The cries for closure had reached a peak in 1986 when a youth at the facility hanged himself in solitary confinement.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 2 Oct. 2023
• His sentence was reduced to 25 years in prison — first in solitary confinement, then on a rocky island off the Peruvian coast.
  — Clay Risen, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Sep. 2023
• According to reports, Lai is kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 18 Sep. 2023
• Both chambers voted for bills aimed at ending the use of solitary confinement in state prisons.
  — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2023
• He was arrested and placed in solitary confinement for 200 days.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2023
• On top of the bogus, politicized charges, China is keeping a man of advanced age in solitary confinement.
  — The Editors, National Review, 19 Dec. 2023
• Initially passing on the solitary confinement tracks, Goldstein took a deeper listen and found that the lyrics brought him to tears.
  — Katie Bain, Billboard, 2 Dec. 2022
• For Trejo, this meant ending up in solitary confinement for months.
  — Heather Platt, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• Ever since Sergei’s arrest two and a half years ago, he has been held in solitary confinement—for the first four months in a punishment cell, in the very worst conditions.
  — Anna Nemtsova, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2023
• In June, Dean Hoffmann, 60, died by suicide while in solitary confinement.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
• Medvedev said his daughter is being held at a detention site in Lublin, and that she has been held for long stretches in solitary confinement.
  — Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
• Many of them have been held in custody since January 2021, in some cases in solitary confinement.
  — Doug Bandow, National Review, 10 Feb. 2024
• Harris was a pre-trial detainee at the Appling County Jail and was in solitary confinement, according to the suit.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
• Then we were moved to solitary confinement—really cold cells.
  — Anne Fadiman, Harper’s Magazine , 17 Feb. 2023
• New York City lawmakers approved a bill to largely ban solitary confinement in its city jails.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
• Some have been placed in solitary confinement because of their identity.
  — Katie Moore, Kansas City Star, 2 May 2024
• The bill to limit solitary confinement is back this year, sparking a new debate over human rights and safety that has divided Democrats at the state Capitol.
  — Laurel Rosenhall, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2023
• There is, for instance, a sequence in the first episode about the three years Newton spent in solitary confinement for a manslaughter conviction that was later overturned.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 May 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024