How to Use confinement in a Sentence

confinement

noun
  • The dog was kept in confinement until it was determined to be healthy.
  • He remained with his wife during her confinement.
  • The soul of this artist was birthed while he was trapped in confinement.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 12 Nov. 2021
  • He has been held in confinement by the Air Force since June.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 4 Aug. 2022
  • He was sentenced to 25 years, with the first 20 to be served in confinement.
    — Caroline Silva, ajc, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Sentenced to 3 years in prison, with the first year on home confinement.
    — Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Shapiro called for 18 months in home confinement and no prison time for Gabaee.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2022
  • Staley was sentenced last week to 30 days in prison and a year of home confinement for the scheme.
    — Jaclyn Peiser, Washington Post, 31 May 2022
  • This means that inmates in the future could be on home confinement for years.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 30 Mar. 2024
  • The mental pressures of confinement wore on the soldiers.
    — Francine Uenuma, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2024
  • For Finney-Smith solitary confinement was the easy part -- compared to the stress of being 800 miles from JazMyne.
    — Dallas News, 28 May 2021
  • The body and mind even suffer from confinement in a small space and isolation.
    — Elizabeth Fernandez, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2021
  • The range of punishments for contempt of court is a fine of up to $500, confinement in the county jail for up to six months, or both.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Oct. 2021
  • But at the same time, in her mostly solitary confinement, so much of who she was bit by bit fell away.
    — Los Angeles Times, 22 May 2021
  • In the past couple of years, the abolishment of welfare liens, the solitary confinement bill, the clean slate (bill).
    — Deidre Montague, Hartford Courant, 28 May 2022
  • In the new law, slated to kick in on Dec. 2, maximum confinement will be one year in jail.
    — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Brown asked that his client be released to home confinement.
    — Brooks Dubose, baltimoresun.com, 8 July 2021
  • She’s trapped with her five-year-old son Jack, who was born in confinement and has no concept of the outside world.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The lawyers said no more than six months in prison and a year of home confinement was appropriate.
    — Larry Neumeister, Star Tribune, 10 June 2021
  • Other sentences ranged from 12 to 18 months in prison along with one year of home confinement.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Paul has been in solitary confinement for 30 days so far.
    — Olga Pavlova, CNN, 8 Aug. 2021
  • Francis, who also pleaded guilty in the case, fled home confinement last year and is now jailed in Venezuela.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Feb. 2023
  • The confinement feels both of its filming moment, and true to the period.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 7 July 2021
  • In the case of Khan, an agreement last year that was kept secret from the jury pledged to reduce his time in confinement.
    — The New York Times, Arkansas Online, 13 Mar. 2022
  • Last month, a judge sentenced Marquez to three months of home confinement.
    — Michael Kunzelman, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • In the case of Mr. Khan, an agreement last year that was kept secret from the jury pledged to reduce his time in confinement.
    — New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Under the state's First Offender Act, Gray served the first 46 days in confinement in jail, rather than the full 5 years of her sentence.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 6 Sep. 2024
  • He was recaptured and sent in 2017 to the United States and put in solitary confinement.
    — NBC News, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The 80-year-old, who is in poor health and partially blind, will serve the remainder of his two life sentences in home confinement in North Dakota.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 9 Mar. 2025
  • Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence, ordering the remainder of his sentence to be served in home confinement.
    — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 16 Mar. 2025

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