Sentence examples for imprisoned themselves from inspiring English sources

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Some imprisoned themselves in their homes.

The Commission heard 75 witnesses, who were either tortured and imprisoned themselves or are the family of executed prisoners.

The creepiest part of any cult story is this confusing complicity, the partial sense that the followers have imprisoned themselves.

This threw the Tasmanian legal system into a mad scramble to keep Sue imprisoned, regardless of new evidence from new witnesses, several of whom are now charged with perverting justice and imprisoned themselves.

"This is not a jail," says patriarch James Tyrone at one point, yet his wife and sons seem to have imprisoned themselves in a place where they cannot escape each other.

So, LiS is comforting itself by imagining Fergie and Mossie teaming up, Thelma and Louise-style, to break out of this gilded cage in which they have imprisoned themselves.

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"We don't see people imprisoning themselves," he said.

Because women set themselves unattainable targets". She also pointed out that "women could imprison themselves without any male oppression".

Free to roam the sunny fields or long beaches, they end up imprisoning themselves behind gates, fences, locks, alarms, sun blockers and mosquito repellents powerful enough to zap out happiness itself.

The implication that human beings can imprison themselves was timely in the swinging 60s, while at the same time the notion of the security services as the real enemy was seeping its way into fiction that had previously existed in more black and white terms.

And the shame and silencing that that brings for people that end up internalizing the blame and imprisoning themselves in their silence.

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