Inmate is an English word with synonyms like resident or prisoner. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Inmate meaning
- A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
- A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
- Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.
Synonyms of Inmate
Using Inmate
- The main meaning on this page is: A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient). | A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place. | Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.
- Useful related words include: resident, prisoner, yardbird, yard bird.
- In the example corpus, inmate often appears in combinations such as: an inmate, the inmate, inmate at.
Context around Inmate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 14 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Inmate
- In this selection, "inmate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, security, jail, prison, tested, causing and bank stand out and add context to how "inmate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 2019 the inmate arranged for and a fellow inmate ms hamedi. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "inmate" sits close to words such as accent, buffer and continuation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with inmate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
An inmate stretches during a running club practice. (8 words)
A prison support worker has been found guilty of misconduct after fabricating welfare checks on a vulnerable inmate. (18 words)
According to a fellow inmate, Ms. Hamedi keeps busy with yoga, meditation and running, an activity she used to do with her husband. (23 words)
Recently, Tirwar allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh from her saying that he would make viral the video of a jail inmate who was taken to the District Hospital by police for treatment and where the inmate was given preferential treatment by the police. (43 words)
There are three methods the jail has for accepting money that should be deposited into the inmate bank account, a booking kiosk, a lobby kiosk and online payments that are credited to an inmate’s account, according to a previous audit. (41 words)
The need to vaccinate the inmates and jail employees was to prevent an outbreak after an inmate tested positive for hepatitis A. The inmate tested positive on Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 and has since been quarantined and is under medical care. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Recently, Tirwar allegedly demanded Rs 5 lakh from her saying that he would make viral the video of a jail inmate who was taken to the District Hospital by police for treatment and where the inmate was given preferential treatment by the police.
The department’s existing policy says head strikes can be used only when the inmate is assaulting the deputy or when the deputy is threatened with serious injury and there is no other means to control the inmate.
While in custody and pending sentencing, Williams engaged in a brutal attack on another inmate causing the inmate to lose consciousness, suffer injuries to his head and face, and be transported to the hospital.
There are three methods the jail has for accepting money that should be deposited into the inmate bank account, a booking kiosk, a lobby kiosk and online payments that are credited to an inmate’s account, according to a previous audit.
While it is still unclear as to what set off the upset at the prison, some speculate that it might be the prison inmate who was killed two weeks ago on July 17 in a standoff with another inmate.
Specifically, Bateman described high levels of inmate frustration, expressed through throwing food and stopping up toilets, and an insular, inmate-created culture that included trading medications after pills are dispensed by jail staff.
That prompted prison officials to again reclassify McClintic, this time in reverse, from being a minimum-security inmate to a medium-security inmate on Nov. 8, 2018.
He said Beverly was working in the female pod when an inmate informed her that another inmate was attempting to hang herself in her cell.
Ms. Calderon was responsible for administering inmate re-entry services for Denver jail inmates as well as other inmate programs for over 10 years in Denver.
The corrections officer tells the detective that jail policy prevents him from entering an inmate's cell alone when an inmate is found unresponsive.
The need to vaccinate the inmates and jail employees was to prevent an outbreak after an inmate tested positive for hepatitis A. The inmate tested positive on Thursday, August 2nd, 2018 and has since been quarantined and is under medical care.
In this case, an undercover agent posed as an inmate and carried on a 35-minute conversation with another inmate that he suspected of committing a murder that was being investigated.
Re-socialization via total institutions involves a two step process: 1) the staff work to root out a new inmate's individual identity & 2) the staff attempt to create for the inmate a new identity.
A 26-year-old male guard at Kakogawa Prison in Hyogo Prefecture was sent to the prosecutors last May, suspected of instructing an inmate to open his mouth and then spraying hand sanitizer into it.
According to a fellow inmate, Ms. Hamedi keeps busy with yoga, meditation and running, an activity she used to do with her husband.
According to Christopher, in December 2019, the inmate arranged for a package containing 10 cell phones to be delivered to Smith-Symes’ residence in Nevada.
According to the lawsuit, filed in federal court for the District of Alaska on Monday, the woman was an inmate at a low-security prison in Dublin, Calif., when the warden, Ray Garcia, started grooming her in 2019.
An inmate stretches during a running club practice.
Another Polunsky inmate, Ronald Prible, writing in support of Young’s bid for clemency, recalled an incident when guards were punishing the person in the adjacent cell by denying food.
A prison support worker has been found guilty of misconduct after fabricating welfare checks on a vulnerable inmate.
Common combinations with inmate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an inmate 57×
- the inmate 45×
- inmate at 21×
- another inmate 13×
- inmate who 12×
- inmate was 11×
- inmate in 10×
- inmate to 9×
- row inmate 6×
- inmate is 5×