imprison
verb (used with object)
to confine in or as if in a prison.
had imprisoned
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past perfectof imprison.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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China acknowledged that it had imprisoned a British businessman, who vanished in 2018, on spy charges.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2024
We ask how she came to be defending the very people who had imprisoned her - the military.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2019
By her late teens, she was demonstrating against the same dictator who had imprisoned her father and in favor of women’s rights.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2018
The party’s revered leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, took over from the same generals who had imprisoned her or kept her under house arrest for nearly two decades.
From Economist ● Oct. 26, 2017
The tinder was still charred on one side from where Frank had used it to burn through the icy chains that had imprisoned the god Thanatos in Alaska.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
