send to prison
Example Sentences
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Counties would get their state funding regardless of how many people they send to prison, it noted.
From Washington Times • Feb. 18, 2020
Counterterrorism’s odd couple: An ex-cop teams up with a former extremist he helped send to prison.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2018
He invoked the name of the man he had once tried to send to prison years after the march.
From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2016
He said that the men, who had no prior criminal records, were "not the kind of people you send to prison."
From Time Magazine Archive
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If a peasant refused an unjust tithe he as mandatar could send to prison; if he refused an oppressive tribute to the mandatar it was the priest that could inflict the lash of ecclesiastical punishment.
From For the Right by Franzos, Karl Emil