GAOL in a Sentence

Learn GAOL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for GAOL, such as:
1. All that we know who lie in gaol.
2. Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol.
3. And I heard she is mortally afraid of gaol, because she merits it so well.
4. Poor old Clegg spent years in gaol before we discovered there was no proof it was his bullet that killed anyone.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of GAOL
gaol
 v.  lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
 n.  a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
Classic Sentence:
1  And I heard she is mortally afraid of gaol, because she merits it so well.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
3  Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
4  All that we know who lie in gaol.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  Yet over him, as over every one, there hung poised the All-Saving Hand; and, an hour after his arrival at the prison, the doors of the gaol opened to admit Murazov.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Poor old Clegg spent years in gaol before we discovered there was no proof it was his bullet that killed anyone.