How to Use solitary confinement in a Sentence

solitary confinement

noun

• Cameron Williams dies of a rare stroke Cameron Williams, 24, dies of a rare stroke in solitary confinement.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 12 June 2024
• The first 77 days, he was kept in solitary confinement.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
• But just to be sure, the Israelis put him in solitary confinement until the deal was done.
  — Adam Sella, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• 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
• The first of the four inmates who died, Dean Hoffman, killed himself in solitary confinement last June.
  — CBS News, 5 June 2024
• 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
• The goal wasn’t even to free prisoners, just to release two from long-term solitary confinement.
  — Adam Sella, New York Times, 26 May 2024
• 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
• Later that night, the 42-year-old was transferred to a different prison and placed in solitary confinement.
  — Kevin Grasha, The Enquirer, 19 July 2024
• Whelan said he was held in solitary confinement in the five days before his release.
  — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Salehi was tortured, kept in solitary confinement, and sentenced to over six years in prison.
  — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 22 May 2024
• 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 the meantime, the police raided the husband’s jail cell, seized a cell phone, and placed him in indefinite solitary confinement.
  — D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
• Rarely has an inmate in solitary confinement for more than a year had such a vibrant social and political life.
  — Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Nov 2024