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Definition of incarcerate:

  • (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail;

Sentence Examples:

It was deemed necessary to incarcerate hundreds of thousands of persons in concentration camps.

James was finally incarcerated in Windsor Castle, where he endured an imprisonment of nineteen years.

The large majority of the criminals who were thus incarcerated, managed to effect their escape.

The greatest rise occurred in the percents having been incarcerated among the most recent cohorts.

The prisoners died in thousands in the jails, especially poor debtors, who had been long incarcerated.

Had he with so much trial and suffering effected his escape, only to be incarcerated again?

Projections for years after 2001 indicate the percent ever incarcerated will rise at an accelerated pace.

After a week or two the place becomes part of one's existence; one feels incarcerated there.

He was there conducted before a magistrate, questioned, and incarcerated in the prison of the place.

Only those remained who were incarcerated, and the day of their deliverance was near at hand.

There were from seven to nine thousand prisoners incarcerated in the old portion of the establishment.

He pointed out the place where stood the prison in which the precious scoundrels were incarcerated.

It is necessary to obtain permission for a mother to visit her son who is incarcerated there.

No matter how closely he incarcerates himself, or how silently, a woman always feels him there.

They thought of the thousand of illustrious prisoners who had been incarcerated in prison for years.

Here Earl Rivers and his fellow peers were incarcerated, praying for their execution to end their misery.

Professor Burr's laboratory was but twenty miles from the cell where her son was incarcerated.

The criminal cases bad enough to justify this grave and extreme measure should be incarcerated for life.

Five thousand helpless husbands, whose only crime is their unfortunate sex, are incarcerated in the Thames Tunnel!

We were incarcerated without ceremony and the kid left us after many assurances of his kind offices.

To have the liberty of being incarcerated in a jail, for shooting the wild animals of the country.

He is the first glimpse of the outside world I have had since I was incarcerated in this asylum.

I agree with my friend, that the law should not incarcerate men, women and children in dungeons!

Some time afterwards General Stone was taken into custody by military order, and for a long time incarcerated.

It has been suggested that a criminal on his second conviction be deemed a professional, and incarcerated for life.

There was good reason for the Kid not having been seen, for he had been incarcerated in a jail.

How to escape from prison was ever the thoughts by day and dreams by night of the incarcerated.

She succeeded in incarcerating us in the most thoroughly private room that could be found out of a model prison.

In essence, these nets stayed in our wake for several hours, incarcerating an entire aquatic world in prisons made of thread.

I would not bet against arrest; for, as we have seen in this very case, the innocent are sometimes incarcerated.

"And in return you lay violent hands on him, and incarcerate him while you do your best to rob him."

He came of a family of five brothers and sisters, one of whom was incarcerated for a year on account of stealing.

In many of the prisons we visit there are no women, and where they are incarcerated, there are very few.

He had only been admitted the previous day, and already he was incarcerated in a dark cell for outrageous conduct.

On the walls are some touching inscriptions and rude carvings done by the miserable beings who have been incarcerated there.

They were carried, one to Boston and one to New York, and were incarcerated, amidst the triumph of the nation.

He was, however, incarcerated for several years before being brought to trial, and finally sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment.

I always laugh when I encounter a beast like that in poetry; he seems so helpless when incarcerated in a poem.

It seemed impossible that her husband, who had been with her only forty-eight hours before, could be incarcerated there.

A noted philanthropist, the fame of whose benevolence is the Open Sesame to an insane asylum in which his child is incarcerated.

They had presence of mind enough to release their incarcerated comrades and attempt another assault in force on the door.

I am absolutely compelled to discharge this defendant, who, by his own statement, ought to be incarcerated in State Prison!

They remained incarcerated a whole week, and some, it is said, were tortured; yet they always insisted upon their innocence.

The Scotch officers had served the King faithfully without exception; it was incredible that one could be thus incarcerated.

Three months before Albert had been captured by the rebels, and incarcerated in the dungeon in which he still was.

Thither Southey went, and either found incarcerated in the same apartment with his publisher, or took with him, the Rev.

Said Ned, coolly, as he seized Moore by the throat and flung him into the room where his son was incarcerated.

They refused to accept of pardon before they were incarcerated, on condition that they would never again reside in the Cherokee country.

It is, quite simply and literally, a Bill for incarcerating as madmen those whom no doctor will consent to call mad.

It was found in the cell which Paul Mole occupied in the depot of the Rue de Tourraine, where he was first incarcerated.

If he ever broke one of these engagements, the king would have him seized and incarcerated for the rest of his days.

We conspicuous rebels were incarcerated and given an opportunity to think the problem through, with limited contact with one another's viewpoints.

After which we shall be able to incarcerate you at our pleasure (but not at yours) on any and every hour of the day.

There are windows from which people were thrown, bridges over which they were dragged, and dark holes in which they were incarcerated.

Indeed, it may be questioned whether any previous prisoner, incarcerated within the walls of the county prison, had ever enjoyed so much.

Still I repeat, but for the cruel conspiracy against her, she could not have been incarcerated, as a lunatic, in an asylum.

Occupying the position I did, I was more interested in restoring the stolen money than I was in having the tramp incarcerated.

This is the first thing we heard from visitors ever since we seventy-four have been incarcerated in the Snohomish County Jail at Everett.

Within a few hours after the indictments had been returned, the men named therein had been arrested and incarcerated in jail.

Day by day, since Gaunt gave her money, Virgie had sent parcels to the nursing home, wherein her treasure was incarcerated.

Dorothy felt like a captive long incarcerated in prison who has just got his release, and awakes once more to life and liberty.

Nowadays most of us whisper the term crazy, realizing that we ourselves are liable to be caught up and incarcerated under that head.

Since she had been incarcerated in this den of books she had not seen a field of white snow or a green tree.

During their passage down the river, and while they were incarcerated at Oregon City, their bearing was most proud and haughty.

Yes, if Lenny had been caught breaking the stocks, some at least would have pitied him; but to be incarcerated for defending them!

It was his delight to visit the various prisons and obtain a hideous pleasure in watching the tortures of the poor wretches therein incarcerated.

With her own hands she incarcerated the photographs in the drawers of a heavily carved bureau and turned the keys upon them.

Attorney General Olney, acting for the railroads, was hatching a scheme to incarcerate the officers of the union and refuse them bail.

I fancied myself in some barbarous country, where, being charged with a political offense, I was doomed to be incarcerated in a large cheese.

If he has a dismal nurse, and a dismal home, he may as well be incarcerated in prison, and be attended by a jailer.

Where conduct and character afford no such grounds he should be incarcerated for life, just as we would retain hopeless lunatics in asylums.

They took it as an insult to them, that I continued in prison to repeat the very same offenses for which I had been incarcerated.

The place at first sight had no distinctive character: great ingenuity had been used to secure the inmates without seeming to incarcerate them.

To incarcerate victims in prisons has brought terrible punishment not only on the prisoners and their families, but indirectly on the state.

The best he could do was to make some show of holding the enemy, perhaps incarcerating him in the dungeon so lately Leon's abode.

Twenty years ago, the system of treatment of prisoners before trial incarcerated in her Majesty's jails was not so uniform as it now is.

As a matter of course, I could not ask him for his daughter's hand while you were incarcerated as an offender against the State.

This means that you are to be incarcerated seventy-two hours in solitary confinement without bail, at the end of which time a judicial examination is given.

Then he clapped his hands, gave a sharp order, and saw the trio led back to the compartment in which they had been incarcerated.

The procedure yields estimates of the number of persons in the birth cohort who are incarcerated for the first time each year or who die.

At one time the room was used as a prison, and the walls are covered with names or marks made by those who were incarcerated here.

Now who, I wonder, is the friend of man, the modern Prometheus; you who incarcerate her, or this alien lawyer who sets her free?

In absence of sheriff and constable, and jail in which to incarcerate offenders, the vigilance committee was the only protection of the new camp.

Its horrible dungeons, where all manner of torments were inflicted, and tortures suffered by the unfortunate wretches incarcerated here, attract scores of visitors.

We may reasonably suppose, too, that not one in a hundred so accidentally incarcerated would survive, the accident in the majority of cases proving fatal.

If he could not help himself out of the prison, in which by his unlucky leap he had incarcerated himself, who was to help him?

The incarcerated criminal is a burden to himself and to society, to which he is only in the most exceptional cases restored improved by confinement.

Allow herself to be carried to her destination, and there incarcerated with vile persons in a prison which her ignorance painted in the darkest colors?

What he heard his father say was some of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been incarcerated in his room.

It was ascertained that he must have been incarcerated in some dungeon, entirely shut out from the light of the sun, which gave him great pain.

They were relieved every six hours, and, in fact, we were as much under arrest as if we were already incarcerated in one of the prisons of Lyons.

The Countess had recently had the satisfaction of seeing her husband, who had escaped from prison, where he had been incarcerated for six years.

"I can look after it; there's no trouble in that," said Benjamin to the "liberal club," who assembled as soon as possible after James was incarcerated.

He finds that his denial is worthless; that his friends are suspicious, and that under pretence of his own good he is to be seized and incarcerated.

Those who were in prison were kept supplied with necessaries by their brethren at large, who never knew at what moment they might be incarcerated.

Jack and Harry, being informed of this, thought it would be an excellent opportunity for the escape of Mole, who was incarcerated in the same jail.

This done, they were led with the inevitable music through Cheap, and lastly incarcerated in the Tun during the pleasure of the Mayor and Aldermen.

The result was that, at the conclusion of his examination, he was placed under arrest and incarcerated with the other suspects in the county jail.

As we have seen, the prisons had never before been so full, and there had never before been such a demand for places to incarcerate political offenders.

Though she was incarcerated in an insane asylum for eighteen months, yet members of her own family again and again testified that she was not insane.