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Example sentences for "incarceration"

Lexicographically close words:
incapacitation; incapacities; incapacity; incarcerate; incarcerated; incarnate; incarnated; incarnates; incarnating; incarnation
  1. The third day of my incarceration brought a dozen warriors to escort me to the audience chamber, where Salensus Oll himself was to try me.

  2. I have heard of the Temple of the Sun, Dator," replied Matai Shang, "but never have I heard that its prisoners could be released before the allotted year of their incarceration had elapsed.

  3. Very shortly after my incarceration in the thermometer-furnished cell I was visited by the surgeon, and having obtained his permission to have a bed instead of a hammock, a wooden tressel was brought in with sheets, bolster, and blankets.

  4. He was suffering two years’ incarceration for a miscalculation of over £7000.

  5. His present incarceration was the result of treachery, where a less fortunate associate had rounded on him, and he was arrested a week after.

  6. Men who had undergone this punishment told me that the effect was indescribable, this combination of gloom, idleness, and profound silence, and their wasted appearance after a fortnight’s incarceration fully confirmed their assertions.

  7. Somehow he was attracted to me, moved, no doubt by my general appearance, and because I was now showing visible signs of my incarceration and experiences in Wesel prison.

  8. During my period of incarceration at Sennelager the number of civil prisoners brought in to swell our party was somewhat slender.

  9. As the greater part of the papers relating to the arrest were destroyed as soon as the incarceration was effected, it sometimes happened that in certain cases the reasons were not known even in the offices of the ministers.

  10. The most important episode in the history of the Bastille during the Regency was the incarceration of those who were accused of complicity in the Cellamare conspiracy.

  11. Their dismissal was ordered by a lettre de cachet, as their incarceration had been.

  12. The reader will not be surprised at learning that the prospect of incarceration at the Bastille did not always strike the future prisoner with terror.

  13. For some months after his incarceration his fine state of health and exuberant animal spirits kept him from utterly breaking down.

  14. His incarceration without a prompt preliminary hearing also was a violation of Indiana law.

  15. Beginning with the wreck of their sail boat, Harry then told Mr. Wyman in sequence the events that had led up to their present incarceration in a Spanish jail in Cuba.

  16. The same dignitary who had ordered their incarceration still sat at his desk, although in a more dignified attitude.

  17. This company wished to remove me to Mr. Hamilton's hotel, the place where we had stayed previous to our incarceration in jail.

  18. I suppose I am indebted for my incarceration to the oath of a worthless man, who was arraigned before me and fined for abusing and maltreating his lame, helpless brother.

  19. Being arrested by the warrant of a county magistrate for a county offence, Bunyan's place of incarceration was naturally the county gaol.

  20. His incarceration was now more severe than it had been: though in the same tower as formerly, he was kept in the most secure apartment.

  21. Perhaps, instead of opposing the government, it would be better for the citizens to bring about a general measure of criminal incarceration as the surest road to the good-will of their sovereigns.

  22. On this occasion three principal events are narrated;--the incarceration of Paul, an earthquake, and the liberation of Paul.

  23. It was just one week after the arrest of the general's orderly by the patrol and his incarceration by order of the lieutenant of the guard.

  24. How much poor Shorty had lost through that storm, that morning mud ride, that arrest and incarceration and the consequent fatigue, he was to learn within another day.

  25. No one supposes that incarceration in solid rock is an ordinary event in the life of even a Toad.

  26. Dr Buckland allows that the circumstances of the incarceration of his Toads were not natural.

  27. So here was this poor harmless creature, whose long incarceration in his gloomy dungeon might have excited compassion in his favour, suddenly released from his prison, only to be slain by his liberator!

  28. Hence when a prima facie case was made out against a Governor, his inexperienced successor was often persuaded to consent to his incarceration whilst the articles of impeachment were being investigated.

  29. The sordid idea that criminals should pay the cost of their own incarceration is secondary.

  30. His incarceration further embitters him against the world.

  31. I shall use the period of my poor Edward's incarceration as a breathing space, and shall give up as many of my activities as possible for the next month.

  32. However, during his incarceration he continued his studies, and wrote a work concerning the Spanish monarchy which was translated from Italian into German and Latin.

  33. His incarceration did not, however, last long, and Tennhart died while he was journeying from the city which so little appreciated his ravings to find in Cassel a more secure resting-place.

  34. In the recent alterations of Princetown Church, it was found that no inconsiderable number of the graves of the French prisoners who died during incarceration were empty.

  35. From the moment of his incarceration all resentment of Richard’s iniquities may well be quenched in compassion, so grievous were the sufferings and degradations undergone by the inmates of those noisome and infectious precincts.

  36. So that was the morning of my third day of incarceration and nothing more took place all day.

  37. There are, in this building, your mental and intellectual superiors whose incarceration bear me witness.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incarceration" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    blockade; captivity; circumscription; confinement; custody; detention; duress; envelopment; gantlet; gauntlet; imprisonment; incarceration; inclusion; jailing; justice; martyrdom; penalty; picketing; punishment; quarantine; rack; siege; torment; torture