PENITENTIARY in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PENITENTIARY, such as:
1. A whole penitentiary system can be evolved from that word.
2. Please explain how a federal maximum security penitentiary is like a hotel in any way.
3. This she did to escape the penitentiary and continued her illicit relation undisturbed.
2. Please explain how a federal maximum security penitentiary is like a hotel in any way.
3. This she did to escape the penitentiary and continued her illicit relation undisturbed.
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Meanings and Examples of PENITENTIARY
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penitentiary
a. showing or constituting penance
a. used for punishment or reform of criminals or wrongdoers
Classic Sentence:
1 Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand.
2 This she did to escape the penitentiary and continued her illicit relation undisturbed.
3 A whole penitentiary system can be evolved from that word.
4 The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been corrected.
Example Sentence:
1 Please explain how a federal maximum security penitentiary is like a hotel in any way.
2 He was still working as a parole officer for the state and he was taking one of the prisoners, who must have been out on furlough, back to the penitentiary.