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
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
The former prison warder, 36, received more than one million votes and thanked everyone for choosing her before performing her single Skyscraper.
From BBC • Dec. 15, 2013
The warder grumbled, “Mandela, you say you want long pants and then you don’t want them when we give them to you.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
