jailer

Example Sentences

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There are more than 120 journalists detained in China, according to RSF, which calls the country "the world's biggest jailer of journalists".

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2026

That alone should mean that shipping people there runs afoul of domestic laws and potentially the Eighth Amendment, if indeed the U.S. can be legally considered the jailer.

From Slate • Apr. 8, 2025

One jailer wrote on the signature line that she could not be trusted with a pen.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2024

One is that most sheriffs worked in their office before the became sheriffs, as a deputy or a jailer or a staff member.

From Salon • Sep. 15, 2024

Matt felt that old thrill of terror, as though he were still a small boy and she his jailer, but this woman posed no threat at all.

From "The House of the Scorpion" by Nancy Farmer