What is "imprisoning"

Usage examples of "imprisoning".

I suspect that when the battle is over then they will start imprisoning the souls of those they hold captive.

She strained into his imprisoning, caressing embrace in a sultry dance that made him want to eat every inch of her and then sink into her until sweet annihilation consumed them.

He pulled her close, imprisoning her in his arms, wishing there were sunlight so he could see her eyes.

In the space of seconds every man of the nearest group was clad in the imprisoning affairs.

At a glance, he had solved the device by which the imprisoning jackets were fastened.

If he could reach the machete, drag it free and hack his way through the imprisoning branches!

The painful freeing of his right hand, the fear that in the fall he might have sustained an injury that would cripple him and leave him a prey to the first beast of the jungle that might roam that way, the dread that he might never be able to free himself from those ruthless, imprisoning branches had blinded him to another and more imminent peril that threatened.

The veins stood out on his neck, the great muscles in his shoulders were ridged like whipcords as he strained to throw the last of the imprisoning branches from his chest.

A great tree, torn loose by that last cyclonic burst of wind, had fallen, sweeping him along with its branches and imprisoning him in the pool.

Moving away from the friends and neighbors who knew Ariana would, of course, make imprisoning her all the easier.

It was a cap rock, imprisoning in a gigantic underground reservoir all that lay beneath it.

It lay there under vast pressure, so that it was not only available, should a man deduce its secret hiding, but it was ready to leap forth twenty or thirty or forty feet into the air, and engulf with life-giving sweetness any man who could penetrate the imprisoning rock and set it free.