warder

Example Sentences

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“Lockdown was probably the oddest experience in my life,” says McGowran, who spent nearly 26 years in the Royal Air Force before becoming a yeoman warder.

From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021

Years ago as a gallery warder at the British Museum I would often choose an object as I patrolled, and extemporise a brief story from it.

From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2019

At least he was not at exercise on Monday, though I think I caught sight of him at the corner of the stone-yard, walking in charge of a warder.

From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018

Her stories take the figure of the imprisoned “madwoman,” as found in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” or Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” and make her the warder of her own jail.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016

Down the hall, at the guards’ station, a warder twists the knobs of the wireless back and forth but finds only hiss and crackle.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr