Explore Penitentiaries through 3 example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Penitentiaries in a sentence
Penitentiaries meaning
plural of penitentiary
Using Penitentiaries
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of penitentiary
Context around Penitentiaries
- Average sentence length in these examples: 33 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Penitentiaries
- In this selection, "penitentiaries" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 33 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, youth and security stand out and add context to how "penitentiaries" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include into those penitentiaries and medium security penitentiaries he had. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "penitentiaries" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with penitentiaries
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The minors who lived in the institutions, which were similar to youth penitentiaries, were considered juvenile delinquents or "neglected wards" and were held under child welfare legislation. (27 words)
A prison orderly, who is serving a jail term for buggery and rape, and two prison officers at the Timehri and New Amsterdam Prisons have been implicated in the smuggling of marijuana into those penitentiaries. (35 words)
In 2011, he filed a case against the Attorney General of Canada seeking a transfer to a penitentiary with a lower security level than the maximum- and medium-security penitentiaries he had been incarcerated in since 2000. (37 words)
In 2011, he filed a case against the Attorney General of Canada seeking a transfer to a penitentiary with a lower security level than the maximum- and medium-security penitentiaries he had been incarcerated in since 2000. (37 words)
A prison orderly, who is serving a jail term for buggery and rape, and two prison officers at the Timehri and New Amsterdam Prisons have been implicated in the smuggling of marijuana into those penitentiaries. (35 words)
The minors who lived in the institutions, which were similar to youth penitentiaries, were considered juvenile delinquents or "neglected wards" and were held under child welfare legislation. (27 words)
Example sentences (3)
The minors who lived in the institutions, which were similar to youth penitentiaries, were considered juvenile delinquents or "neglected wards" and were held under child welfare legislation.
A prison orderly, who is serving a jail term for buggery and rape, and two prison officers at the Timehri and New Amsterdam Prisons have been implicated in the smuggling of marijuana into those penitentiaries.
In 2011, he filed a case against the Attorney General of Canada seeking a transfer to a penitentiary with a lower security level than the maximum- and medium-security penitentiaries he had been incarcerated in since 2000.