Explore Imprison through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like confine or detain. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Imprison in a sentence
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Imprison meaning
To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.
Synonyms of Imprison
Using Imprison
- The main meaning on this page is: To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.
- Useful related words include: confine, detain, put away, gaol.
- In the example corpus, imprison often appears in combinations such as: to imprison, and imprison, imprison the.
Context around Imprison
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Imprison
- In this selection, "imprison" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, falsely, disproportionately, unlawfully, explaining, lisa and poor stand out and add context to how "imprison" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include agreed to imprison him on and ballot and imprison him on. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "imprison" sits close to words such as accrington, airfoil and airstrip, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with imprison
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The deal could incentivize Russia to imprison more innocent people, critics say. (12 words)
Yaya DaCosta’s Andrea is the prosecutor looking to imprison Lisa for Bondurant’s murder. (15 words)
Anyway, eventually the symbiotes rebel against Knull and imprison him in the void once more. (15 words)
The Macomb County Prosecutor's Office 23-year-old Endi Bala of Shelby Township around 1:30 p.m. "attempted to unlawfully imprison a 15-year-old girl who was walking along Clinton River Road in Clinton Township. (38 words)
The hue and cry about the recent death of Putin critic Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison overlooks that Biden and the Deep State are trying to imprison Trump until he dies, too. (33 words)
Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas told Allard during his sentencing in 2015 that Allard was “a prime candidate” to someday be declared a dangerous offender — which would imprison him indefinitely. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Elizabeth Dalzell committed a string of offences and a judge said he had no choice but to imprison her.
He hungered for the lively exchange of ideas and believed that writing only served to imprison a thought in letters.
His conquerors agreed to imprison him on the island of Elba, just off the coast of Tuscany.
It’s primitive to imprison an old man for chamba which is a Zambian traditional practice.
McLean was found guilty of two charges of conspiracy to blackmail and one count of conspiracy to falsely imprison in January this year.
Superior Court Justice Bruce Thomas told Allard during his sentencing in 2015 that Allard was “a prime candidate” to someday be declared a dangerous offender — which would imprison him indefinitely.
This combination makes him almost impossible to imprison, explaining why the pro heroes essentially went for the kill during the Paranormal Liberation War.
Yaya DaCosta’s Andrea is the prosecutor looking to imprison Lisa for Bondurant’s murder.
Anyway, eventually the symbiotes rebel against Knull and imprison him in the void once more.
Its founder, the secretive oligarch Bidzina Ivanishvili, has threatened to imprison his political rivals after the election and ban the main opposition party.
Later the teenage cousins are separated and Seydou, as Kouassi was, is captured by a Libyan armed gang, who imprison and torture him.
Meanwhile Maher’s party tries to strip Trump’s name from the ballot and imprison him on bogus political charges – in the name of saving democracy.
Some Democratic state leaders and social justice groups said the measure would disproportionately imprison poor people and those with drug issues.
Specialist officers also discovered that Dynan had also been involved in the planning of a sophisticated burglary and plotting to falsely imprison multiple people.
The Ankara-based Anka News Agency wrote that the law would imprison people who work on behalf of foreign countries or organizations that oppose the interests of the Turkish state.
The cost to keep people healthy is less than the cost to hospitalize or imprison them.
The deal could incentivize Russia to imprison more innocent people, critics say.
The hue and cry about the recent death of Putin critic Alexei Navalny in a Russian prison overlooks that Biden and the Deep State are trying to imprison Trump until he dies, too.
The Macomb County Prosecutor's Office 23-year-old Endi Bala of Shelby Township around 1:30 p.m. "attempted to unlawfully imprison a 15-year-old girl who was walking along Clinton River Road in Clinton Township.
But at the very least they can step up surveillance on Islamists, gather solid evidence, round them up and imprison them they commit these atrocities.
Common combinations with imprison
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to imprison 32×
- and imprison 10×
- imprison the 10×
- imprison him 8×
- imprison people 5×
- imprison and 4×
- imprison her 3×
- or imprison 3×
- imprison an 2×
- falsely imprison 2×