house arrest
noun
confinement of an arrested person to their residence or to a public place, such as a hospital, instead of in a jail.
house arrests
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pluralof house arrest.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Independence Day celebrations by carrying out detentions and house arrests, the American Embassy in Havana said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026
He knows that the 2005 riots lasted three weeks and only ended after the declaration of a state of emergency, with curfews and house arrests.
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2023
Chinese human rights lawyer Tang Jingling sees the increased use of house arrests as another piece of the expanding security state that can be turned on activists at any time.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 6, 2022
Mr. Chen is the blind human rights lawyer who was put under house arrests for years before moving to the United States in 2012.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2022
The interrogations and monthslong stints of house arrests continued over the next year, as did phone harassment by her intelligence agency handler, who called himself Mohammed Abdu, she said.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2021
