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imprisoned

adjective as in arrested

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“I will continue my fight for the freedom of Denis and all the brothers imprisoned and abused by a declining regime,” he warned in his message.

There is no imprisoned mind, heartbreaking time, or deafening silence that joy cannot break through.

Trial repeatedly delayed for imprisoned journalist at heightened health risk.

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The journalists had been driving to interview a local political leader when armed men stopped the vehicle, examined the occupants’ phones and laptops and threatened them at gunpoint to drive to the town of Tel Hamis, where they were imprisoned.

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When he was first incarcerated, he says some sort of paperwork snafu had him imprisoned under two different, but similar, names.

Krivov held numerous protests to support the imprisoned activists who became known as the “May 6th prisoners.”

When the media attention died down, Tavakoli was quietly re-imprisoned.

It is for his work trying to help other political prisoners that he has been outrageously imprisoned himself.

It is very difficult to sit by helplessly while a friend is imprisoned for a crime that is too implausible to comprehend.

In these enlightened days no man is imprisoned for owing money, but only because he does not pay it when told to do so.

The soul of music which is embodied in them is imprisoned within wood and crystal, and is no more heard of men.

Taken prisoner by the Americans in December, 1899, he was imprisoned on his refusal to subscribe to the oath of allegiance.

The royal family, imprisoned in the Tuileries, were each day drinking of the cup of humiliation to its lowest dregs.

Although Morgan was offered a commission in the British army while he was imprisoned, he violently rejected the offer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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