What part of speech is imprisoning?

Imprisoning can be categorized as a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. imprisoning is a verb, gerund of imprison (infinitive).

Inflections

Verb

What does imprisoning mean?

Definitions

Verb

imprison - lock up or confine, in or as in a jail; "The suspects were imprisoned without trial"; "the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life"
imprison - confine as if in a prison; "His daughters are virtually imprisoned in their own house; he does not let them go out without a chaperone"

Examples of imprisoning

#   Sentence  
1. verb We shouldn't be imprisoning people for such petty crimes.
2. verb I don't want to be in the company of anyone who would ever consider imprisoning someone for dissent.
3. verb They're imprisoning gourmands for their sinful gluttony.
4. verb Tyrannical governments frequently imprison their political opponents.
5. verb You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
6. verb Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
7. verb If the army in white uniform cannot imprison the king in black uniform, nor the army in black uniform can imprison the king in white uniform, the game ends without a winner. It's a tie.
8. verb The target of both armies is to imprison the opponent's king.
9. verb There is no prison to imprison our thoughts.
10. verb Tyrannical governments frequently imprison their political opponents.
11. verb You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
12. verb Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
13. verb If the army in white uniform cannot imprison the king in black uniform, nor the army in black uniform can imprison the king in white uniform, the game ends without a winner. It's a tie.
14. verb The target of both armies is to imprison the opponent's king.
15. verb There is no prison to imprison our thoughts.
Sentence  
verb
We shouldn't be imprisoning people for such petty crimes.
I don't want to be in the company of anyone who would ever consider imprisoning someone for dissent.
They're imprisoning gourmands for their sinful gluttony.
Tyrannical governments frequently imprison their political opponents.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
If the army in white uniform cannot imprison the king in black uniform, nor the army in black uniform can imprison the king in white uniform, the game ends without a winner. It's a tie.
The target of both armies is to imprison the opponent's king.
There is no prison to imprison our thoughts.
Tyrannical governments frequently imprison their political opponents.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
If the army in white uniform cannot imprison the king in black uniform, nor the army in black uniform can imprison the king in white uniform, the game ends without a winner. It's a tie.
The target of both armies is to imprison the opponent's king.
There is no prison to imprison our thoughts.

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