How do you use Incarcerate in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like imprison or confine, plus the exact meaning.
Incarcerate meaning
- To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law.
- To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
Synonyms of Incarcerate
Using Incarcerate
- The main meaning on this page is: To lock away; to imprison, especially for breaking the law. | To confine; to shut up or enclose; to hem in.
- Useful related words include: imprison, confine, remand, put away.
- In the example corpus, incarcerate often appears in combinations such as: to incarcerate, incarcerate someone.
Context around Incarcerate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incarcerate
- In this selection, "incarcerate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, someone, palestinians and immigration stand out and add context to how "incarcerate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 1970s to incarcerate irish republican and able to incarcerate a defendant. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incarcerate" sits close to words such as aaon, abbv and abdalla, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incarcerate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
How much does it cost to incarcerate someone for 28 years? (11 words)
Israel has 26 facilities it uses to interrogate, detain and incarcerate Palestinians. (12 words)
Justo Rufino Barrios government main Guatemalan National Penitentiary, built by Barrios to incarcerate and torture his political enemies. (18 words)
I have often heard from some I know that it is actually best when God puts someone not religious in office because a "True man of God" could not be a Christian and do what governments must do like go to war or incarcerate or execute criminals. (47 words)
From the radicalisation of white supremacists in U.S. prisons to the United Kingdom’s disastrous bid in the 1970s to incarcerate Irish Republican Army members, the problem is nothing new: prisons are pools of explosive extremism awaiting a spark. (40 words)
If you only give a person shelter, food, and safety, without freedom of thought and expression, and the right of the state to incarcerate someone for whatever reason, then what is it other than a nicely run zoo. (38 words)
How much does it cost to incarcerate someone for 28 years? (11 words)
Example sentences (15)
And while no pardon would be available in the Georgia criminal case, it’s untested whether the constitution would allow a state to incarcerate a serving, elected president.
If the Supreme Court allows the pretrial detention changes to take effect, judges would no longer be able to incarcerate a defendant who is awaiting trial solely because they cannot afford to post bail.
Israel has 26 facilities it uses to interrogate, detain and incarcerate Palestinians.
Since July 2022, eight of Canada’s ten provinces have terminated their immigration detention contracts with the federal government, which allowed the Canada Border Services Agency to incarcerate immigration detainees in provincial jails.
Merchan could incarcerate Trump for a shorter amount of time, or alternatively impose a combination of probation, home confinement and fines.
The review, chaired by former justice secretary David Gauke, aims to explore tougher punishments outside prison while making sure there is space to incarcerate the most dangerous offenders.
How much does it cost to incarcerate someone for 28 years?
From the radicalisation of white supremacists in U.S. prisons to the United Kingdom’s disastrous bid in the 1970s to incarcerate Irish Republican Army members, the problem is nothing new: prisons are pools of explosive extremism awaiting a spark.
If you only give a person shelter, food, and safety, without freedom of thought and expression, and the right of the state to incarcerate someone for whatever reason, then what is it other than a nicely run zoo.
I have often heard from some I know that it is actually best when God puts someone not religious in office because a "True man of God" could not be a Christian and do what governments must do like go to war or incarcerate or execute criminals.
The people who pass the laws that incarcerate others never have to face the full force of the prison system themselves.
In America all three branches of the U.S. government, ostensibly operating under the U.S. Constitution, ignored the Bill of Rights in order to incarcerate Japanese Americans.
Justo Rufino Barrios government main Guatemalan National Penitentiary, built by Barrios to incarcerate and torture his political enemies.
London: Cockerill He later argued that husbands used asylum hospitals to incarcerate their disobedient wives, Defoe, Daniel (1728).
The report determined that the decision to incarcerate was based on "race prejudice, war hysteria, and a failure of political leadership".
Common combinations with incarcerate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to incarcerate 11×
- incarcerate someone 2×