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Because the intelligence agency knows of Almásy’s affair with Katharine, they assume Geoffrey’s death is suspicious and imprison Almásy as he tries to get help.

From Salon ● Jul. 28, 2026

I patiently explained that neither law clerks nor justices get to imprison people sua sponte.

From Slate ● Apr. 3, 2026

Mitsotakis, who notes the fraud began before he came to power in 2019, has vowed to imprison the "thieves" responsible and to reclaim the funds.

From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026

“It’s despicable to imprison a person for exercising their 1st Amendment rights,” McBroom said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2026

Pentheus ordered his guards to seize and imprison the visitors, especially the leader, “whose face is flushed with wine, a cheating sorcerer from Lydia.”

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton

The camera is almost always static; the frame is frozen in a way that virtually imprisons the characters, suggesting that their blinkered belief systems similarly constrain their thoughts and direct their deeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

How does this good woman merit a disease that imprisons you in your own body?

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2025

Evasive and everywhere, the past imprisons Olivia as good old Gothic stories tend to wrap their tentacles around and ensnare us.

From Salon ● Jul. 16, 2022

Still, in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other country, some of Norway’s methods have been adopted by Oregon and North Dakota.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2019

Banning not only confines one physically, it imprisons one’s spirit.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

They have been imprisoned at the Baker County Detention Center and denied bail ever since.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2026

To be eligible, a person has to have been imprisoned as a result of a conviction that was later vacated by a court.

From Salon ● Aug. 10, 2026

Chávez had been imprisoned in June 2023 over her alleged role in Castillo's plan to dissolve congress.

From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026

Nicaraguans “live in a state of terror,” said Dora María Tellez, a prominent Ortega critic who was imprisoned for nearly two years before she was stripped of her nationality and forced into exile in 2023.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2026

The evening was now drawing close, and well I knew that at sunset the Thing, which was till then imprisoned there, would take new freedom and could in any of many forms elude all pursuit.

From "Dracula" by Bram Stoker

Retired tech titans and social media luminaries can no more control the development of AI by banning it than the Catholic Church could undo the fact that Earth revolves around the sun by imprisoning Galileo.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2025

"Excuse me, that's incorrect. Habeas corpus is the legal principle that requires that the government provide a public reason for detaining and imprisoning people," Hassan said.

From Salon ● May 20, 2025

Before imprisoning people, including noncitizens, the government is required under the Constitution to charge the defendants with a crime and to prove their guilt in a jury trial, he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 25, 2025

Reacting to Sentencing Council's announcement, Janey Starling, co-director of feminist campaign group Level Up, said the changes are a "huge milestone" in the campaign to end imprisoning pregnant women and mothers.

From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2025

The badger then upended the basket, imprisoning the maddened sparrow beneath it.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques