imprison
He was jailed for four months for drink-driving.他因酒后驾车而被监禁4个月。
Protestors were executed, jailed or otherwise persecuted.抗议者被处决、监禁或受到其他方式的迫害。
He was jailed for 15 years for stabbing his wife to death.他因捅死妻子被判入狱15年。
California's "three strikes and you're out" bill means that from now on criminals found guilty of three crimes are jailed for life.加利福尼亚的“三击不中出局”的法案意味着：从现在起罪犯若3次被判有罪，就会被终身监禁。
He was jailed for revealing secrets to the Russians.他因为向俄国人泄密而被监禁。

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jail | American Dictionary

jail
noun[ C/U ]
us/dʒeɪl/
a place where criminals are kept as a punishment for their crimes or while waiting for trial:
[ C ]County jails are already overcrowded.
[ U ]He was sentenced to six months in jail.

jail

verb[ T ]us/dʒeɪl/
He was jailed for three years.

Examples of jail

jail
The author is hot - the winner of a prestigious literary prize or a recently jailed dissident.
We have evidence which we accept that such offences are committed frequently inside the jails.
He looks as if he were jailed for life.
Pressured by the demonstration, the judge freed all the workers and jailed the factory administrator.
Only 19 percent of those who had been imprisoned were jailed for periods that did not exceed one month.
Thus, armed crowds threatened to storm the jails in order to release all of those imprisoned for having broken their precetti.
Members were often jailed and fined for violating ordinances and laws pertaining to public order and were targeted by antiterrorism measures.
Asylums became repositories, as had the jails and workhouses before them, for any individual who could not be cared for in the community.
The jails, prisons, and houses of correction in which these offenders were confined, however, were not yet subjected to uniformly prescribed and enforced standards.
Opposition parties were banned or harassed out of existence, defiant leaders were exiled or jailed.
Men accused of seduction were jailed until they relented or paid fines.
Resisters were court martialled and sent to civil jails.
In addition, the troops of the line guarded the gates, the prisons, and the jails, and provided crowd control at the theaters and markets.
They admonished drunkards, jailed adulterers, and obligated reluctant suitors to marry pregnant sweethearts.
Refugees and the politically disenfranchised were enumerated, classified, controlled, isolated, forcibly employed, resettled or even jailed.
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