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
The senior warder refused absolutely; it was against the rules.
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
Rory Bremner says his Jeremy Corbyn is a work in progress - his starting point is the ineffectual, well-meaning warder Barraclough, in classic prison sitcom Porridge.
From BBC • Dec. 30, 2015
I shooed Tefu away and remonstrated with the warder.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
