7 sentences with 'imprisoned'
Example sentences and phrases with the word imprisoned and other words derived from it.
• « The pianist Liu Shikun, whom only Van Cliburn surpassed in the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition, was imprisoned in China in 1967. »
• « Enraged, the French king, Philip IV, quickly had the Pope arrested and imprisoned; he was released months later but quickly died. »
• « Ignatius of Loyola soon attracted a following and was even briefly imprisoned on suspicion of heresy, as he claimed to offer "spiritual conversion" to those who followed his teachings. »
• « Napoleon was imprisoned on the cold and miserable island of St Helena in the South Atlantic, where he eventually died in 1821 after writing his memoirs. »
• « The workers of Paris rose up in protest and a series of bloody street battles called the June Days broke out in which thousands of Parisian workers were killed or imprisoned. »
• « In addition to the total murder, thousands more were imprisoned in labour camps known as gulags, almost all of them located in the cold northern regions of Siberia. The total number of victims is conservatively estimated at 700,000, not counting the hundreds of thousands deported to the gulags. »