imprison
Example Sentences
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Buddha steps in, imprisoning Monkey under a mountain and forcing him to study sutras for 500 years.
From Los Angeles Times
He was imprisoned for almost 15 years, not once petitioning his old college friend for mercy.
Nor was the State Department’s office for unjustly imprisoned Americans.
After surviving World War II, Zawacka was imprisoned and tortured by the Communists in the 1950s, but she lived to see a free Poland.
Western missionaries were expelled; churches, mosques and temples were brought under state control or shuttered; and clergy who refused to join government-sanctioned “patriotic associations” were imprisoned.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
