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How to use imprison in a sentence

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And he went after the terrorist bombers and he was able to stop them and to imprison them and to put a total halt to any such activity.
Rather, we differ from other nations only in our high propensity to imprison nonviolent offenders and to incarcerate them for long periods.
First, a decision to imprison the man for contempt of court should never be taken too quickly.
If one assigns to the authorities the power to imprison or even to kill people, one must restrict and clearly circumscribe this power.
The rules of due process were designed to ensure that the government cannot arbitrarily imprison innocent people.
During the war, it was used first to garrison Union troops and then to imprison up to 2,000 Confederate soldiers.
They will imprison the dog in the corn crib, and if after a few weeks he fails to show signs of disease, they'll let him out.
The authorities still arrest and imprison unsanctioned bishops and priests.
Empower us to live in your great Spirit, standing firm against all that would imprison your people in slavery to worldly idols.
They have the freedom to imprison themselves within a state of mind, and the freedom to liberate themselves from it.
Of course, we couldn't afford it, as we imprison such a disgracefully huge portion of our population, and in often sub-human conditions.
The Federalists passed the Sedition Act and John Adams used it to imprison newspaper columnists who wrote articles critical of his administration.
In a fit of fury, Pentheus attempts unsuccessfully to imprison Dionysus, who subsequently awakens Pentheus's salacious interest in the cavorting ladies.
Technology, abetted by social media, threatens to imprison everyone in a solipsistic bubble.
They voted to imprison people convicted of being gay for two years and six months.
Why did it take so long to imprison the men responsible for this terrible crime?
But the villagers, headed by the chief Manyenga, takes his money and imprison him.
It was flat and pointed, like the heads of many of those unfortunates whom people imprison in asylums for the weak-minded.
Why pay to imprison criminals, when hanging is so much cheaper?
We imprison ourselves in relationships, in financial bankruptcy — we lock our own selves up.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Bibliolators may vituperate us, persecute us, or imprison us, but they cannot refute us.
The inevitable consequence is that we imprison ourselves hopelessly in the affirmation of Kantian relativism.
A man may arrest his own slave, and he may also imprison for safe-keeping the runaway slave of a friend.
It is in self-seeking and advancement that we narrow our faculties and imprison our natures.
And then, too, what fine jokers are those fellows who imprison art in a toy-box!
If they imprison you for resisting their tyrannies, others will take your place.
Who has the right to imprison and assign the terms and conditions to the imprisoned?
Could not even the waters of the grey sea imprison him, as they do many another whether he will or no?
Isn't it wrong to imprison a queen mother and her ten children?
The question was simply whether the House had the right to despotically arrest and imprison, and to supersede trial by jury.
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