How to Use confinement in a Sentence

confinement

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  • The dog was kept in confinement until it was determined to be healthy.
  • He remained with his wife during her confinement.
  • Shapiro called for 18 months in home confinement and no prison time for Gabaee.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 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
  • 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
  • Other sentences ranged from 12 to 18 months in prison along with one year of home confinement.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 12 Jan. 2024
  • 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 judge gave James Uptmore 36 months of probation, with 21 days of home confinement.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Nov. 2022
  • His confinement is abject, but the source of his pain is deeply relatable: grief.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2022
  • The judge said she could be ordered to home confinement, adding that a hearing would be held before that could happen.
    — Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Rather than constrict the storytelling in any way, that confinement serves to lock in the tension, like a pressure cooker does with steam.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The convictions ranged from 57 months in prison to 12 months in prison, while other people were sentenced to home confinement.
    — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Shops like Modern Nostalgic inspire us to treat the home not as a confinement, but as a blank canvas.
    — Vanessa Labi, Sacramento Bee, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Sans cells, bars or chains, the effect of this wide-open stage and free-roaming staging remains one of inescapable confinement.
    — Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Under the law, prisoners can serve up to ten-percent of their sentence (capped at six months) on home confinement.
    — Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 24 Jan. 2023
  • She is expected to appear before a judge Wednesday to have the terms of her confinement reviewed.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Prison sentences have ranged from a few days of intermittent confinement to 22 years in prison.
    — Michael Kunzelman, Twin Cities, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The Mystery of the Strong Force One of the biggest open questions about quark-gluon plasma is when, exactly, the quarks and gluons break out of their confinement.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • During the fifth week of confinement David began to participate in the program.
    — Edward Kiersh, SPIN, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The first six months of his supervised release will be served in home confinement, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said.
    — Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 28 Oct. 2022
  • In confinement, waiting for his next round of interviews, Moon Gyet finds bits of poetry etched into the walls of his room.
    — Vulture, 16 Dec. 2022
  • Once there, she’ll be released into a sea park confinement area in Washington state.
    — Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
  • In July 2004, she was sentenced to five months in prison, five months of home confinement and two years of supervised probation.
    — Catherine Santino, Peoplemag, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Its objective is to free the vines from their confinement and spread them in an entourage propitious to the fullness of their faculties.
    — Karen Lubeck, Town & Country, 8 Nov. 2022
  • In the end, the mercury did briefly escape confinement, managing in midafternoon to reach the 50-degree mark, the day’s high temperature.
    — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 27 Dec. 2023
  • He was released in December that year under a royal pardon, but the confinement shook him.
    — Sui-Lee Wee, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Small windows and high windowsills contribute to the feeling of confinement.
    — Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 12 Jan. 2023
  • His conviction exposes him to up to 30 years of confinement.
    — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Forced to confront her deepest fears and darkest memories, Jessie must find a way to escape her confinement.
    — Travis Bean, Forbes, 6 May 2023

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