Improve your vocabulary by Quiz

Use incarcerate in a sentence

Definition of incarcerate:

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

Sentence Examples:

You say you were unjustly incarcerated in a private sanatorium.

The incarcerated larva strives to escape its terrible neighbor.

Here, for twelve months, the poor delinquent was incarcerated.

Converse with, and study the characters of some of those incarcerated enthusiasts.

Had he incarcerated him in one of the barracks of the large square?

Nebuchadnezzar reappeared after his period of penance, and incarcerated his son for life.

The soul incarcerated in the infernal regions might as well pray for egress.

Other less conspicuous persons were incarcerated at home, or banished beyond the seas.

The trouble is that some are caught and incarcerated, if their larceny be small.

Pastors who declined to conform were deposed, banished, incarcerated or abused in other ways.

They may so kink the uterus as to incarcerate the placenta and cause sepsis.

Accused were, in consequence, not infrequently incarcerated for considerable periods whilst awaiting trial.

He, by a stratagem, was incarcerated in one of the dungeons of the Egyptian's dwelling.

Hundreds of thousands of "felons and trespassers" have from first to last been incarcerated within.

Why were the Apostles persecuted from city to city, stoned, incarcerated, beaten, and crucified?

She was incarcerated fourteen days, and when liberated she returned to her former practices.

It was one great desire of his heart to have Pat Carroll incarcerated as a penal felon.

Forty each day till the jails were empty and cleared of all persons wrongfully incarcerated.

The women huddled beneath the window of the house where I was incarcerated for smallpox.

"If ever I do reach such a state, I hope the family will incarcerate me," rejoined Nan.

The populace broke down the doors and liberated these unfortunate men, incarcerated for no crime.

They were incarcerated with a miscellaneous horde of criminals made desperate and resentful by harsh treatment.

Only on the basis of the type of prisoner that would be incarcerated in a certain penitentiary.

He even hit upon the expedient of declaring an amnesty for Persians incarcerated in the local jail.

Having "gone through" us, they incarcerated the officers in one room, the enlisted men in another.

She was incarcerated there when a girl, for she was said to have been accomplice in a murder.

His reputation as a "pardoning Governor" resulted in his being besieged by everybody who had a relative incarcerated.

The barracks of the military, and the prison in which political offenders were incarcerated, were next sought out.

The merciless commissioners had ordered her to be incarcerated in a cell which no beam of light could penetrate.

This terrifying cry reverberating through the jail would freeze the very blood of the poor priests therein incarcerated.

Supposed to be incarcerated there, because the time had rather outgrown the strong cells and the blind alley.

He was thereupon committed to the State Asylum for the Insane, where he remained incarcerated for many years.

Occasionally a number of French soldiers, and now and again an English Tommy or tar, were incarcerated among them.

Your minions have incarcerated me in this vile den on a pretence that I owe a debt which I have not paid.

You should be incarcerated in an asylum, and not permitted to run around here and frighten folks with your wild babble.

Pathetic as were her efforts at stock farming, I must admit that my sympathies were all with the incarcerated rooster.

Moreover, he knew his own dignity better than to eat the "loaded" glazed shoddy note paper in which he was incarcerated.

Only initials have been indicated, but sufficient description is attached to enable personal friends of those who are still so unfortunate as to be incarcerated to identify them and their present situation.

He added, that he might expect immediate remuneration for his revelations, equivalent to their value, as well as the prospect of a speedy liberation from the den in which he had so long been incarcerated.

On two or three occasions, for instance, I was abruptly addressed by some surprised or suspicious verger, and once, owing to ignorance of its usual closing hours, I was incarcerated in a local cemetery.

The strong, dungeon-like room in which he was incarcerated consisted of bare walls, without any furniture, the light being admitted by a single aperture so high that the prince could not look out at it.

The members of the Government, who had been incarcerated during several hours, now wished to show their authority; they felt that their power had been shaken, and saw the necessity of strengthening it.

The editors were never incarcerated, and the journals resumed publication after an interval of only two days, but the incident was vigorously employed during the entire summer as a means of attack upon the administration.

I found out afterwards that these poor fellows, most of them quite youths, had been incarcerated for some silly nonsense they had uttered about politics; they were then being taken before the authorities to hear their final sentence.

They took the man who was already the head of a monarchy to be simply the consul of a Republic, and, in their stupid ignorance, they made war against him, instead of incarcerating his energies in a general peace.

Just think of the contrast between sailing so smoothly and easily as we are doing, away above the world with all its cares and sorrows, and being incarcerated within those gloomy walls, many of them for life.

And it should be remembered that the wrong and suffering in these cases is by no means limited to the individuals who are incarcerated, but that it often extends most cruelly to others connected with the prisoners.

The first measure taken by the magistrate is to exact security from the defendant, or, in case of refusal, to incarcerate him: the ground of the accusation and the importance of the charges against him are then discussed.

Then a white hand was laid lightly on the bright curling locks of the bowed head, and a low voice whispered in the ear of the incarcerated man, "It is a pitiful heart that forgets a friend in adversity."

The noblemen degraded from their position, here incarcerated in the convict prison, were badly looked upon by their fellow prisoners; although they had lost all their rights like the other convicts, they were not looked upon as comrades.

The charge against me was necessary before I could be incarcerated there, but once within, it was the scheme of the Governor-General to obtain my consent to the marriage by threats and by the constant terrors of the place.

Without going into details, Charles told him that the truth had now come out, his innocence was made apparent to those concerned, and he hoped he should soon see the last of the precious walls he was incarcerated within.

Heywood at once sprang forward and closed the door of the vault, shutting the robber in, when another of the men seized Heywood by the collar and dragged him away from the door and released the incarcerated robber.

I think it was on the 31st of December in that same year of grace, seventeen hundred and fifty, in which I had come to the Liberties, and twenty-nine full years with some eleven months since the poor ladies had been incarcerated.

Directly we got on board, Sir John Ross came to meet us; I saw before me him who, for four long years and more, had been incarcerated, hopelessly, with his companions, in those icy regions to which we ourselves were bound.

It gave him the ability to conduct his brother's paper, when only sixteen years of age, at a time when the government of the Province incarcerated James, so that the paper would have been crushed but for the ability of Benjamin.

In a few days after we were incarcerated in this place, twelve hundred of our officers were brought to the city, to be put under fire of our own guns, in retaliation for the shelling of the city; and among them, was Lieut.

Before going to visit the old man, he went to the lawyer, at the suit of whose client he had been incarcerated, to discover the amount of the debt, which he found to be under three hundred pounds, including the law costs.

Our society consisted of above a hundred in number, and the major part of them, incarcerated for political offenses, were but in the position of losers in a game in which they had played the stake of life for the chance of power.

Then followed a day of battle and hate and violence, when she went home raw, feeling the golden evening taken away from her, herself incarcerated in some dark, heavy place, and chained there with a consciousness of having done badly at work.

Those who had made the attempt had either repented of the design, or had not succeeded in it; at all events, they had afterwards gone on to do their duty on the vessel, and had not been incarcerated on board the vessel at all.

A few days later we heard that the head cook was under severe punishment and incarcerated in a dungeon, because he had not taken the trouble to find out what were our special tastes in matters of the table, and had served pork in place of fowl!

There was one, the old Comte de Tilly, who told me he had been incarcerated thirteen times, and that, whenever he saw the exempts in the street, he took off his hat to them, and asked if by any chance they happened to be seeking for him.