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。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Putting people in prison
at His/Her Majesty's pleasureidiom
bang someone up
bar
behind barsidiom
bird
commit
immured
imprison
imprisonment
in custody
incarcerate
intern
pen
remand
remand someone in custody
restraint
rot
rot in jail, prison, etc.idiom
solitary
stretch

Examples of jailed

jailed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Or perhaps he believes that prior to a conviction suspects should never be jailed?
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.
The author is hot - the winner of a prestigious literary prize or a recently jailed dissident.
He looks as if he were jailed for life.
They admonished drunkards, jailed adulterers, and obligated reluctant suitors to marry pregnant sweethearts.
Opposition parties were banned or harassed out of existence, defiant leaders were exiled or jailed.
Thus, the government has banned and confiscated editions of papers printing materials it finds objectionable and jailed journalists and editors.
Refugees and the politically disenfranchised were enumerated, classified, controlled, isolated, forcibly employed, resettled or even jailed.
If it were absolute and operative at every stage of a prosecution, the defendant could never be jailed until conviction.
Huge numbers of older children found themselves jailed for vagrancy as a result.
A decade later, the costs are clear: nearly a million people jailed for drug violations, many of them minor possession charges.
Some were arrested and briefly jailed.
Travel permits set temporal and geographical limits to journeys, and refugees apprehended by the security services without such a document are liable to be jailed. 14.
They are likely to emphasise that militias have disarmed, that commerce and farming are picking up, and that former warlords now serve in the army or have been jailed.
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