Sample Sentences for
incarcerate
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    He was obviously incarcerated for a reason.  (source)
    incarcerated = put in prison
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    Anthony Ray Hinton had been locked down in solitary confinement at Holman Correctional Facility for three decades in a 5 x 7 cell just down the hall from the room where more than fifty other condemned people were executed during Mr. Hinton's period of incarceration.  (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
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    The beast's scales had turned pale and flaky during its long incarceration under the ground, its eyes were milkily pink; both rear legs bore heavy cuffs from which chains led to enormous pegs driven deep into the rocky floor.  (source)
    incarceration = captivity (or imprisonment)
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    Papaw spoke with the police officer about where to find his incarcerated daughter.  (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
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    ...and then it's not just about names but about race and class and mass incarceration,  (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    A federal prisoner costs at least $30,000 a year to incarcerate, and females actually cost more.†  (source)
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    In essence, these nets stayed in our wake for several hours, incarcerating an entire aquatic world in prisons made of thread.†  (source)
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    A wholesale arrest of malefactors, like that in the Jondrette garret, necessarily complicated by investigations and subsequent incarcerations, is a veritable disaster for that hideous and occult counter-society which pursues its existence beneath public society; an adventure of this description entails all sorts of catastrophes in that sombre world.†  (source)
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    When she was first incarcerated, they hadn't allowed her to bring her knapsack into the cell but let her take some of its contents with her in a brown paper bag.  (source)
    incarcerated = imprisoned (put in prison)
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    Wade Lanier spent some time on Marvis: his criminal record, convictions, incarceration.  (source)
    incarceration = imprisonment (being sent to prison)
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    SOON WE WERE AT the green gates of the prison everyone called Kerchele, a corruption of the Italian word carcere, or incarcerate.†  (source)
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    It would be, in effect, paying the government for incarcerating him for a month.†  (source)
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    The leggy woman begins reciting Cedric's criminal history and various incarcerations, highlights from the forearm-thick folder, or "jacket," on inmate 158706.†  (source)
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