incarcerate

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[ US /ˌɪnˈkɑɹsɝˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnkˈɑːsəɹˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
    the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life
    The suspects were imprisoned without trial
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How To Use incarcerate In A Sentence

  • How that rule would apply to those currently incarcerated is unclear, but in any event, the benefits of this ethically questionable legislation would arguably be minimal. News Item
  • The only solution most agencies saw was building more places to incarcerate offenders. INSIDERS
  • I think most of the bad part is being confined anyway, being incarcerated-under the label of being mentally ill.
  • And while it's pretty expensive to incarcerate men, you can expect to spend double the cost to incarcerate women because of the cost of their confinement and also the cost to society of their kids.
  • Limits court authority to incarcerate offenders who commit certain drug crimes, break drug treatment rules or violate parole.
  • Men younger than 18 years, those with recurrent or incarcerated herniae, and those with scrotal diseases (tumor, orchitis) were excluded from the study.
  • If such a regime is in fact valuable, then the threat to incarcerate thieves may both reduce people's freedom with respect to one sort of action (by making stealing incompossible with remaining unincarcerated), while enhancing it with respect to others (by making it possible to accumulate, use, and trade private property). Coercion
  • The offenders' liberty, in the absence of sentence remission, would actually be restricted for a longer period than if incarcerated.
  • Obviously, it is good to get dangerous people off the streets, but this law allowed courts to incarcerate individuals who had never been convicted of any crime, based on a guess about future dangerousness. The Conservative Assault on the Constitution
  • You can visit Robben Island, too, 7km off the coast, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for all those years.
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