Get to know Jail better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like gaol or jug.
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Jail meaning
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- Confinement in a jail.
- The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
Synonyms of Jail
Using Jail
- The main meaning on this page is: A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding. | Confinement in a jail. | The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- Useful related words include: gaol, put away, jug, put behind bars.
- In the example corpus, jail often appears in combinations such as: the jail, county jail, in jail.
Context around Jail
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 13 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Jail
- In this selection, "jail" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, county, year, hotel, warden, management and director stand out and add context to how "jail" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 105 bed jail described how, are in jail quintieri told, county jail and jail term. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "jail" sits close to words such as draw, internal and seek, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with jail
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He was taken to the Union County Jail and held without bond while serving his remaining jail time. (18 words)
Two types of cards that involve jail, "Go to Jail" and " Get Out of Jail Free ", are explained below. (19 words)
Detainees at the Cook County Jail pray during a Christmas Day mass at the jail on Dec. 25, 2023. (19 words)
A Delhi court had awarded four-year jail term to them while the former coal secretary, H.C. Gupta and two other officials, K.S. Kropha and K.C. Samaria, were handed a three-year jail sentence, the court imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on M/s JLD Yavatmal. (51 words)
He said that it would not be right thing that Shahbaz Sharif will chair the meeting of Public Accounts Committee in jail and all the members of committee will arrive in jail to attend the meeting as many dangerous criminals are also present in jail. (45 words)
Becky Quintieri, the sheriff’s jail director, last week had spoken of exactly that sort of risk affecting jail inmates: “One of the other things that happens with people who are in jail,” Quintieri told the Public Safety Coordinating Council on Jan. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
It had everything against rule of law, the law of jungle to grab me and put me in jail and keep me in jail for months, because there was so many cases, they would have just kept me in jail.
After posting the bond, Balagot ordered the jail warden of the Kidapawan City Jail of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology to discharge Jacolbe, who was among those identified by witnesses in the killing of Dizon on July 10, 2019.
Becky Quintieri, the sheriff’s jail director, last week had spoken of exactly that sort of risk affecting jail inmates: “One of the other things that happens with people who are in jail,” Quintieri told the Public Safety Coordinating Council on Jan.
He said that it would not be right thing that Shahbaz Sharif will chair the meeting of Public Accounts Committee in jail and all the members of committee will arrive in jail to attend the meeting as many dangerous criminals are also present in jail.
Two types of cards that involve jail, "Go to Jail" and " Get Out of Jail Free ", are explained below.
A Delhi court had awarded four-year jail term to them while the former coal secretary, H.C. Gupta and two other officials, K.S. Kropha and K.C. Samaria, were handed a three-year jail sentence, the court imposed a fine of Rs 50 lakh on M/s JLD Yavatmal.
Arrested and sent to jail, he, in 2017, met Himanshu in Rohtak jail and then, came in contact of his other associates.
Authorities released Trump's less than an hour after he left the jail, and according to Fulton County Jail records, he spent around 20 minutes inside the facility where he was fingerprinted.
Costs of operating the jail include the staffing, supervision and other costs of safely running the jail on a day-to-day basis, all of which is overseen by the Jeff Davis Parish Sheriff’s Office.
Detainees at the Cook County Jail pray during a Christmas Day mass at the jail on Dec. 25, 2023.
Gilheaney’s lawyer asked for the 38-year-old not to be returned to jail to serve the unexpired portion of his sentence – but the plea fell on deaf ears and Gilheaney was sent back to jail.
He was taken to the Union County Jail and held without bond while serving his remaining jail time.
Meantime, Griffin spends her days advocating for better care at the Harris County jail and pushing House Bill 3434, which would greenlight a comprehensive study of jail issues.
Moffat County Sheriff KC Hume, who runs a 105-bed jail, described how the county has incorporated drug treatment into the jail during the past six years.
NWT was way ahead and no hotel jail. we wouldn’t leave and come back without the hotel jail unless vaccinated.
Once in local custody, Nayeri was housed in a dorm-style unit in Men’s Central Jail, part of the Central Jail Complex alongside the Sheriff’s Department’s headquarters in the Civic Center near downtown Santa Ana.
Preparing for the law required a “significant amount of collaboration and planning” between jail and mental health officials, according to a spokesperson for the Denver County Jail.
The Punjab Prisons administration claimed on Tuesday that the interview with mobster Lawrence Bishnoi was not shot inside any jail in the state, just hours after a TV news program allegedly broadcast it from inside a jail.
The Sheriff’s Office runs the jail, but the county’s procurement office supervises all contracts between the county and third parties, including the jail’s medical provider.
The site of the former jail where the murders took place in Randolph County, Mo. The jail is now a family home.
Phrases with jail
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with jail
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the jail 48×
- county jail 46×
- in jail 42×
- to jail 25×
- jail and 23×
- jail in 17×
- jail for 16×
- jail term 15×
- jail on 14×
- of jail 10×