PRISON in a Sentence
Learn PRISON 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.
412 example sentences for PRISON, such as:
1. She spent most of her adult life in prison.
2. Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison.
3. The prison service is already under considerable strain.
4. You've been in prison three times according to our records.
5. The author paints a stark picture of life in a prison camp.
2. Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison.
3. The prison service is already under considerable strain.
4. You've been in prison three times according to our records.
5. The author paints a stark picture of life in a prison camp.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of PRISON
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prison
n. a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
n. a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "There," said he, "are the two suspected foreigners," and at the same time he ordered them to be seized and carried to prison.
2 On the eve of the day fixed for the execution of the condemned man, the chaplain of the prison fell ill.
3 He went instantly to the prison, descended to the cell of the "mountebank," called him by name, took him by the hand, and spoke to him.
4 The door of the dining-room, which, as we have said, opened directly on the cathedral square, had formerly been ornamented with locks and bolts like the door of a prison.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
5 I went to the prison; the jailer would not admit me.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
Context Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE HEROISM OF PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.
6 He sometimes mounted thus even to the roof of the galley prison.
7 At times he would have actually preferred to be in prison with the gendarmes, and that things should not have happened in this way; it would have agitated him less.
8 Javert had been born in prison, of a fortune-teller, whose husband was in the galleys.
9 In the first place, there is one improvement which these gentlemen of the police ought to make, and that is, to prevent prison contractors from wronging poor people.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIII—THE SOLUTION OF SOME QUESTIONS CONNECTED WIT...
10 The jail being in a bad condition, the examining magistrate finds it convenient to transfer Champmathieu to Arras, where the departmental prison is situated.
11 In this prison at Arras there is an ex-convict named Brevet, who is detained for I know not what, and who has been appointed turnkey of the house, because of good behavior.
12 It is no longer a matter of a few days in prison; it is the galleys for life.
13 He answered himself: "If this man has, indeed, stolen a few apples, that means a month in prison."
14 In prison, whither fresh misdeeds had led him, he had become something in the nature of a turnkey.
15 Javert deposited Jean Valjean in the city prison.
Example Sentence: (202 in 14 pages)
1 Red Cross officials were allowed access to the prison for the first time a few days ago.
2 You've been in prison three times according to our records.
3 He gave a very vivid and often shocking account/description of his time in prison.
4 She spent most of her adult life in prison.
5 Her misbegotten father spent most of his adult life in prison.
6 After working in the prison service, he joined the defence forces before becoming an intelligence agent.
7 The prison service is already under considerable strain.
8 Home is the girl '; s prison and the woman'; s workhouse.
9 The author paints a stark picture of life in a prison camp.
10 There is a row of spikes on top of the prison wall to prevent the prisoners escaping.
11 The trial judge specifies the number of years to be spent in prison.
12 If you try to evade paying your taxes you risk going to prison.
13 The prisoner escaped from the prison by knotting the sheets together and climbing down them out to the window.
14 He prophesied that within five years his opponent would either be dead or in prison.
15 A tunnel entrance was found within the precincts of the prison camp.