noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
solitary confinement
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He spent more than half his time in prison in solitary confinement.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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Will it be said that animals raised on close confinement systems, for example, do not fare well, all considered?
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From that time she was kept in close confinement and treated with cruelty.
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More than half the sows are kept in close confinement systems.
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Being in close confinement and everything like that.
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Probably, in the close confinement , he would suffocate in his own smoke.
solitary
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There is plenty of evidence, too, that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick.
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Xi is in solitary confinement , allowed only monthly visits with his father.
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Asylum seekers, with tales of torture, rape and solitary confinement , can go to the end of the queue.
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When I was in solitary confinement I was in a state of hatred.
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I read once that nobody can stand more than ten years in prison, or more than one year of solitary confinement .
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Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement .
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I spent the vast majority of my time in solitary confinement .
■ VERB
hold
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For the next seven weeks, Gobalkrishnan was held in solitary confinement and denied access to a lawyer or his family.
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Mordechai Vanunu continues to be held in solitary confinement in Ashkelon prison.
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Tonight he's being held in solitary confinement .
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Until more is known concerning his death, I judge that you must be held in confinement within my custody.
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He was held in solitary confinement in the General Intelligence headquarters in Riyadh and was reportedly tortured.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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During his confinement , Wen taught himself how to read.
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He was sentenced to 5 months of home confinement for the crime.
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Prisoners are punished by being put in solitary confinement .
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She was sentenced to 15 days' confinement in her cell for violating a direct order.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And although federally sponsored hospitals for specific diseases are uncommon in the United States, federally sponsored places of confinement are not.
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Asylum seekers, with tales of torture, rape and solitary confinement , can go to the end of the queue.
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Fry opposed the penal reformers' prevailing orthodoxy of solitary confinement .
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It was the light also of that china-cabinet room in the apartment where he had suffered confinement with Shula-Slawa.
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Sien was admitted for her confinement while he was still in hospital himself.
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The thought of confinement can make me ill at ease.
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These included speeding up the confinement of government troops and agreeing to an election timetable.