hoosegow

Example Sentences

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And the vision of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought or, indeed, Elon Musk being frog-marched off to the hoosegow will warm the cockles of many a heart.

From Slate • Feb. 13, 2025

Here he is with a program that spent recent years lodged in the psychic hoosegow of the federal recruiting investigation, going 17-15 with no tournament in 2019 and 17-9 with no eligibility in 2021.

From Washington Post • Mar. 16, 2022

More volunteers go undercover in the big house, the hoosegow, the slammer, the gray-bar hotel, the stony lonesome in new episodes of “60 Days In.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 27, 2019

Cersei’s old nemesis Margaery, meanwhile, is still in the hoosegow, taking her own turn with the Nurse Ratched of TV nuns.

From New York Times • Apr. 24, 2016

Anatole, fresh out of the hoosegow, met us in Brazzaville and they drove straight back home to Kinshasa.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver