Example Sentences

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In September 2024, the government introduced legislation making it an imprisonable offence to own or sell zombie-style knives and machetes.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

In September 2024, zombie-style knives were banned in England and Wales, making it an imprisonable offence to own, make, transport or sell them.

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025

TV licence evasion itself is not an imprisonable offence.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2022

Of course, seeing the company in London won’t be quite the same as seeing it in its hometown, where theatergoing is a potentially imprisonable offense.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2015

It has been beefed up recently to make some offences imprisonable, while companies can be fined into insolvency, as with the 2007 act.

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2011