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How to use imprisoning in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word imprisoning? Here are some examples.

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It seemed so easy to just escape from her captors, more so than any previous attempt at her imprisoning.
Administering the death penalty is far more expensive than imprisoning the offender for life.
Ten animal rights protesters were awarded compensation by police after officers were accused of falsely imprisoning them.
I am currently obtaining signatures on a petition to the Home Secretary, to ask him to desist from imprisoning pensioners.
He was cleared of kidnap and assault but served eight months in military prison after falsely imprisoning the woman.
In this piece, the sweet image of a bird contrasts with the imprisoning cage that surrounds it.
His fear of death is his justification for imprisoning and abusing Cate, his deeply confused, mentally troubled young victim, in a Leeds hotel room.
Was he beginning to feel the weight of his phenomenon imprisoning him all over again?
The militias were notorious for their harshness, often imprisoning people they disapproved of.
The government says that it is supporting victims by imprisoning more Canadians for longer sentences.
It has a very sorry track record, a terrible record of imprisoning almost no one.
Lack of money also explains why Republicans in South Carolina are considering a halt to imprisoning non-violent drug offenders.
It is often ignored that imprisoning women has greater social cost to family and community than does imprisoning most men prisoners.
The Protectorate authorities responded by banishing, imprisoning or intimidating the nationalist leaders.
Her limpid eyes were intoxicating, holding him, and imprisoning him.
Even as the nuclear deal was being negotiated, the Iranian government was furiously imprisoning bloggers, lawyers and journalists.
He rightly recognized that the Berlin Wall was an abomination and a poignant symbol of the chains imprisoning the captive nations of Eastern Europe.
In accordance with the Convention, there is a growing tendency in Senegal to avoid imprisoning children and to give priority to placement in a family.
Nelson Mandela will attend and has given his prison number 46664 as the name of the project, symbolizing how AIDS is imprisoning millions in lives of fear and desolation with no hope of release.
The two docks had by then long silted up, imprisoning the rotting hulk of an old wooden ship, the Bollam.
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Examples from Classical Literature
This is as mad a Measure, as imprisoning the Physicians in an epidemical Sickness would be.
Paresi watched, his eyes as featureless as the imprisoning dark.
It would, indeed, be the means of much perjury, and of much whipping, fining, imprisoning, transporting, and hanging.
He served the monarchy by imprisoning, exiling, or sending to the gallows men and women, young and old, with an equable, unwearied industry.
It had made itself master of Utah, and subjected that territory to the laws of the Union, after imprisoning Brigham Young on a charge of rebellion and polygamy.
Do you know that I am the man whom you have been imprisoning and robbing?
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