She is in seclusion, virtually imprisoned.

For the next five years the children, studying with private tutors at home, were "virtually imprisoned," their mother wrote.

In the meantime, Bento and Isaac, virtually imprisoned in the border city, had to spend their assets to feed themselves at the exorbitant prices prevailing there.

The head of the city's police union, Hermann Lutz, said that because of security concerns, visiting leaders would have to be "virtually imprisoned" during the conference.

The intervention of factory workers themselves kept the Teszler family from being deported, but resulted in their being virtually imprisoned on the factory grounds for six months.

Without transportation, they are virtually imprisoned in their houses.

A young Thai woman said yesterday that Federal prison was "a lovely place" compared with the Chinatown brothel where she and 30 other women had been virtually imprisoned.

The majority of unmarried mothers were forced to enter the workhouse hospital for their confinements, where they were virtually imprisoned for a two-week period.

It was early for that, but then in the cold and the dark, virtually imprisoned as he was, why not?

And she's adapted to spending seven months virtually imprisoned in bed, or at least on the couch.