What is "imprisonments"

Usage examples of "imprisonments".

They were anxious that this should be prevented, for they felt, she was sorry to say, that he might again revert to crime, that other imprisonments might ensue, and that "the poor, poor little thing," meaning the wife, might be exposed to more and worse suffering than she had already undergone.

Idleness, hooliganism and repeated imprisonments for petty crime, until something more serious happens, and then longer sentences.

I am a better one -- I am talking like a madman -- with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.

He was now convinced because certain men in his employ had spirited off some of those foreign professionals and subjected them to some highly illegal methods of interrogation, giving them the impression during their confinements and travails that their captors and interrogators were members of the dreaded Iranian secret police, SAVAK, and convincing them that they and their families would be killed in most unpleasant ways did they report their kidnappings, imprisonments, interrogations, or tortures.

Now, Louis Napoléon and I are about the same age, and in my youth, when he was only the pretender to the diadem of his famous uncle, I followed his varying fortunes—his intermittent exiles and imprisonments and restorations to favor—and his ascent to the figurehead presidency.