Jail

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"Jail" in a Sentence (20 examples)

By the time you get out of jail, she'll probably have gotten married.

In the end, he landed in jail.

The notorious rebel was ultimately captured and confined to jail.

The rebel was ultimately captured and confined to jail.

Eventually the cruel man was sentenced to jail.

In the U.S., there are more prisoners than there is jail space for them. So the prisons are overcrowded.

Ten prisoners broke out of jail.

The police threatened to send her to jail.

The judge sentenced him to a jail term of five years.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

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serve time in jail

released from jail

jail sentence

He was sent to jail for theft.

She visited her brother in jail.

Taking a shower at the high school, Tommy (the Kitten) Cavanaugh kids Ugly Palmers. "Ugly, if you think the world is coming to an end," he says, "what are you wasting your time here at this jail for? You gonna need American history up there?"

“I’m out!” That, of course, is an excerpt from Robert Durst’s children’s books [sic], Goodbye Jail. “Goodbye money. Goodbye bail. I killed them all, but goodbye jail. Of course! Of course!”

He said Robins had not been in trouble with the law before and had no previous convictions. Jail would have an adverse effect on her and her three children as she was the main carer.

It has jailed environmental activists and is planning to limit the power of judicial oversight by handing a state-approved body a monopoly over bringing environmental lawsuits.

A 22-year-old man has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 25 years for fatally stabbing 22-year-old Tashan Daniel in an unprovoked attack at Hillingdon Underground station on September 24 2019.

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