warder
Example Sentences
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During the confusion caused by the fire in the Mangaung Correctional Centre in Bloemfontein, Bester managed to escape from prison dressed as a warder.
From BBC • Apr. 23, 2023
“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
If, however, they are to be sent to prison, during the daytime they should be in a workshop or schoolroom with 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
Terrified of being fired and losing his pension, the warder agreed to do whatever Mac wanted.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
