jail
Example Sentences
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The daughter of Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy tycoon jailed in Hong Kong, has expressed concerns about her father's deteriorating health in prison, saying that his fingernails "sometimes fall off" and his teeth are rotting.
From BBC
The latter of these books was written while Ngũgĩ was being held in a Nairobi jail as a political prisoner.
From BBC
His path took shape after Chávez, a young tank commander bent on remaking Venezuela, launched a failed coup in 1992 and was jailed.
She became the only prisoner locked up in Dhaka's old - and now disused - central jail.
From BBC
“We will notify everybody... once he is secured back in Navajo County jail.”
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
