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Imprisonment
"Imprisonment" in a Sentence (14 examples)
Such an offence is punished by a fine and/or imprisonment.
Having been convicted of murder, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The judge sentenced him to one year's imprisonment.
During the imprisonment of Sir Thomas a frequent intercourse of letters passed between him and this beloved daughter and when deprived of pen and ink he contrived to write to her with a coal.
A miserable quarrel provoked by the hardheartedness of the landlord of a public-house, who insisted upon having three pounds of bread in payment for two pennyworth of wine which the woman had regaled herself with, was the circumstance that constituted the charge, and which, if substantiated would be punishable by five or ten years' imprisonment.
In many countries, being gay is a cause for imprisonment.
The fundamental aspect of imprisonment is the loss of liberty.
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The judge sentenced Tom to three years imprisonment.
Three were sentenced to life imprisonment.
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His sinews woxen weake and raw / Through long emprisonment and hard constraint.
Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common prison, or in a private house, or even by forcibly detaining one in the public streets.
Oh, by what plots, by what forswearings, betrayings, oppressions, imprisonments, tortures, poisonings, and under what reasons of state and politic subtilty, have these forenamed kings […] pulled the vengeance of God upon themselves […]
Human rights organisations say many experience imprisonment and beatings along the way.
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