Sample sentences for INCARCERATE

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Definition

put in prison, or otherwise confine

About 7 out each 1,000 Americans is incarcerated.

incarcerated = in prison or jail

The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world.

incarceration = placing someone in prison

(editor's note: 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.)

By then, it cost California about $50,000 a year to incarcerate a prisoner in a state prison.

incarcerate = confine in prison

He was obviously incarcerated for a reason.
Louis Sachar -- Holes

incarcerated = put in prison

And so they came to know the strange rules of their incarceration.
Dave Eggers -- Zeitoun

incarceration = captivity (or imprisonment)

There they had all been incarcerated in a hotel, kept strictly away from their husband and father.
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
Kim is now telling me about being rescued from certain incarceration by Willow.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay

These wicked words deserve condemnation, And women, too, may earn incarceration.
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere -- Tartuffe

I have the usual share of kooky or annoying relatives, but nobody's been incarcerated or institutionalized."
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
He did not seem terribly troubled by his incarceration, although he complained of its injustice.
Erik Larson -- The Devil in the White City

Every Friday night while Paul was incarcerated, we got a collect call from a federal prison.
Willie & Korie Robertson -- The Duck Commander Family
Jake was enthralled by the whole idea of my temporary incarceration, and the reasons behind it.
Ellen Hopkins -- Crank

Tak of the Archives was incarcerated for a time in the dungeons beneath Heaven.
Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
They knew the jails were not celled enough for all of them, so if it meant a few days' incarceration, what did it matter?
William Goldman -- The Princess Bride

Further, when my clients were incarcerated, it was left up to them to find counsel.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
In this vault, men who had been condemned to the galleys were incarcerated until the day of their departure for Toulon.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
The top one read: THE DOCTOR IS: INCARCERATED.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
The boys he'd been arrested with had also been incarcerated, but for some reason, not at the location where Sampson was held.
Sampon Davis, et. al. -- We Beat the Street
Lastly, prison is hardly a cheap solution: it costs about $25,000 a year to keep someone incarcerated.
Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner -- Freakonomics
'He had also been incarcerated for narcotics distribution and armed robbery.
Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen

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