drunk tank

Example Sentences

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When he clocked in for his graveyard shift on Easter Sunday, Mr. Gonzalez was still in the drunk tank, 20 hours after his arrest.

From New York Times

Instead he died ‘in the drunk tank’

From Washington Post

Though, beneath his suit, he, too, is a vulnerable human, whose vulnerability always takes second place to a bit of jokey imagery, as when he is hit by a speeding train and, though knocked out, awakens mildly bruised in a small-town jail cell in the Netherlands, taken there, as if to a drunk tank, instead of to a hospital bed.

From The New Yorker

Sure, the test was a success, with ample data showing that distance and mid-range putting remain relatively consistent while accuracy takes a head-first plunge into the drunk tank.

From Golf Digest

But he felt backward and out-of-place on the cosmopolitan city campus, and after spending a night in the drunk tank, the 21-year-old dropout enlisted in the Marines.

From Washington Post