Sentence examples for imprisoned for years from inspiring English sources

Mr. Shinozuka was captured and imprisoned for years in China, but he survived.

Physical evidence suggests Mali was imprisoned for years before her death – could John be dealing with a Room-style abduction?

Em and Finn have been imprisoned for years because they wouldn't give up the documents they took.

It isn't just that Brazil is ruled by unapologetic former revolutionaries, many of whom — their President among them — were imprisoned for years for being terrorists.

Alberto Fujimori of Peru was extradited from Chile, tried and imprisoned for years before the current president pardoned him on humanitarian grounds.

All three detainees are non-Afghan citizens who said they were captured outside Afghanistan and have been imprisoned for years without trials.

It was 18 years; in total, he was imprisoned for 27 years, some of it elsewhere.

Within a year, the authorities caught up and Ryan's father was imprisoned for four years.

He was imprisoned for twenty-seven years.

He was imprisoned for four years, and repeatedly tortured.

"Typhoid Mary" was not imprisoned for 25 years for treatment.