VocabJLPT N1
imprisonment
NounSuru VerbTransitive Verb

Definitions

  1. 1. imprisonment
This noun refers to the act of placing someone in prison or detaining them in a correctional facility, typically by legal authority. It is a formal and serious word most often encountered in legal, news, or documentary contexts when discussing criminal sentencing or incarceration.

Example sentences

Sentence 1

The court ordered the defendant to be taken into custody after the verdict.

Sentence 2

Word is that person has been imprisoned for years now, right?

Sentence 3

His memoir said, "Even imprisoned, he wanted to protect his family."

Sentence 4

Whoa, it actually went all the way to imprisonment over that?!

Sentence 5

Did that article actually explain why the defendant was imprisoned?