How to Use incarceration in a Sentence

incarceration

noun
  • In the last few decades, women’s incarceration has grown at twice the rate of men.
    — TIME, 9 May 2024
  • He was sentenced to three months in jail and five months of home incarceration.
    — Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
  • His health, poor to begin with, took a dive with the stress of incarceration.
    — Christopher Ketcham, Harper's Magazine, 16 Oct. 2023
  • So, her thing on mass incarcerations is coming back to haunt her.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
  • Due to his lengthy incarceration, Gillispie did not have children of his own.
    — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 2 July 2025
  • But as Dawkins’ incarceration wore on, things began to fall apart.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 3 Oct. 2024
  • He was sentenced to three months of home incarceration and three years of probation.
    — Josh Wood, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Sep. 2025
  • There are many reasons why incarceration is truly a last resort for me.
    — Michael R. Sisak, Fortune, 7 May 2024
  • Through incarceration, through death, and doubt.
    — Todd Spitzer, Oc Register, 25 May 2026
  • Over those same 50 years, our penchant for incarceration has grown.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 May 2023
  • The children in those homes, Heimov said, describe a life that can look like incarceration.
    — Kathryn Hurd, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • No one can really say what the impact of long-term incarceration has on a person.
    — William Jones, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
  • This shows the system is failing — and the damage is already done to the child who has spent time in adult incarceration.
    — Erika Strauss Chavarria, Baltimore Sun, 10 Mar. 2026
  • El Salvador is now the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world.
    — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • But his six years of incarceration had failed to inspire any genuine contrition.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • His incarceration doesn't last long, though, because a taunting serial killer spurs a prison break.
    — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • Pelton was given an option to avoid a lengthy incarceration.
    — Alex Brizee, Idaho Statesman, 6 Aug. 2025
  • In the 1990s, mass incarceration brought a short-term drop in homicides.
    — Debra Gittler, Chicago Tribune, 2 Sep. 2025
  • In the 1990s, mass incarceration brought a short-term drop in homicides.
    — Debra Gittler, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • Many lives have been ravaged by drug addiction and incarceration.
    — Grace Byron, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Hall’s ideas about incarceration changed.
    — James Verini, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • The city’s investments in street lighting and civic services a decade ago helped lead to the lowest crime and incarceration rates in decades.
    — Elizabeth Glazer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
  • But my incarceration now, like my glorious delusion then, cannot quell that yearning for something more.
    — Manuel Muñoz, Literary Hub, 11 Sep. 2025
  • It is seen as part of a growing backlash across the country against prosecutors who have pushed for an end to mass incarceration.
    — Richard A. Webster, ProPublica, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Although this situation has been the hardest and darkest time in my life, good things have come out of my incarceration.
    — Lauren Del Valle, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Three months later, the judge sentenced him to four months of incarceration and a $6,500 fine.
    — Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 25 June 2024
  • Combs' release date has been moved up multiple times throughout his incarceration.
    — Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • He was sentenced to four years’ probation and 30 days of shock incarceration.
    — Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 17 Sep. 2025
  • He was sentenced to 14 days of incarceration.
    — Eleanor Watson, CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • Rather, fiscal pressures forced the state to cut its spending — and treatment’s much less costly than incarceration.
    — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2023

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