Sentence examples for act were imprisoned from inspiring English sources

His confederates in this act were imprisoned, but Collier absconded and lived under sentence of outlawry.

Who could have imagined then that he would later produce a musical in which most of the first act is imprisoned in a gloomy Victorian parlor (muddily designed by Kenneth Foy) suitable for "Arsenic and Old Lace"?

But at the time, the Local Coordination Committees said the attack was most probably an act of vengeance by protesters who were imprisoned and interrogated there.

Sanger and the others were imprisoned for violating the antiobscenity Comstock Act of 1873.

Many local priests were imprisoned.

Four were imprisoned.

Both were imprisoned.

Another 118 were imprisoned.

Political opponents were imprisoned.

"People were imprisoned.

Hundreds of dissidents were imprisoned and tortured.