Below you will find example sentences with "behind bars". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Behind Bars in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: behind
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 6
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 28 words

Words in this phrase

behind bars

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • behind can mean: At or to the back or far side of. Common word
  • bars can mean: plural of bar Frequent word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 1 start, 8 middle, 11 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

15 years behind bars 1× 15 years behind bars for drug 1× a decade behind bars 1× a year behind bars for each 1× barbecues is behind bars the suffering 1× first night behind bars after mr 1× had brewed behind bars 1× half years behind bars 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

a 46 year 1× a casper man 1× a court of 1× a harare man 1× a heartbroken sister 1× a man claims 1×

Common sentence endings:

years behind bars 3× brewed behind bars 1× centre business owner 1× decade behind bars 1× for drug charges 1× for each charge 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

man 6× years 5× off 3× daughter 3× year 3× spend 3× police 3× face 2× drunk 2× prison 2× park 2× remains 2×

Related phrases

left behind falling behind points behind leaves behind hide behind

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around behind:

left behind 14× points behind 12×

Just before it in the phrase index:

begun rolling began posting beer garden beer festival beer company beef cattle

Just after it in the phrase index:

beijing china beijing reuters bell county bell tower belly fat beloved characters

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "behind bars" has 2 words and usually appears near the end in these examples. The average sentence has 28 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as 15 years behind bars, 15 years behind bars for drug, man, years and off stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with left behind, falling behind, points behind, left behind and points behind, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with behind bars

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

A Casper man will spend 12- to- 15 years behind bars for drug charges. (14 words)

All the men listed below are now serving sentences behind bars for their crimes. (14 words)

A court of appeal overturned one conviction after he spent only three years behind bars. (15 words)

Longer example sentences

He says one of the reasons behind his decision to come clean was an incident involving her daughter, who once visited him in prison, and when she asked him why he was behind bars, he lied to her that he was being victimised. (43 words)

Alabama police, with the help of DNA technology, were finally able to identify the remains of a young girl they found buried in a trailer park in 2012 — and by doing so, also put her parents behind bars. (38 words)

Arguelles said that as the days go by and the robbers are not put behind bars, her biggest concern is that instead of only taking the little money that vendors have, they can potentially take the vendors’ lives. (38 words)

Example sentences (20)

A thug who was jailed after threatening to throw acid in his ex's face continued to harass her from behind bars while getting drunk off of prison hooch he had brewed behind bars.

Although the man who allegedly got behind the wheel of a pickup truck drunk on July 4 before plowing it into a park full of barbecues is behind bars, the suffering of loved ones still remains.

He says one of the reasons behind his decision to come clean was an incident involving her daughter, who once visited him in prison, and when she asked him why he was behind bars, he lied to her that he was being victimised.

A 46-year-old Casper woman is behind bars after a Cheyenne-area reportedly found 130 fentanyl pills in her van.

A Casper man will spend 12- to- 15 years behind bars for drug charges.

A court of appeal overturned one conviction after he spent only three years behind bars.

A Harare man Moses Tapiwa Maswera will spend the weekend behind bars after being apprehended for an alleged violent altercation with his girlfriend.

A heartbroken sister and daughter has launched a petition to change the criminal justice system after the drug-driver who killed her family was “let off” with less than a decade behind bars.

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Alabama police, with the help of DNA technology, were finally able to identify the remains of a young girl they found buried in a trailer park in 2012 — and by doing so, also put her parents behind bars.

All the men listed below are now serving sentences behind bars for their crimes.

A man claims he was kept in a police cell for four hours and feared he would spend years behind bars after the police suddenly knocked on his door.

A MAN currently behind bars for breaching a criminal behaviour order has had eight weeks added to his jail term for intimidating a town centre business owner.

A man who raped a teenager five months before she was murdered by her brother was sentenced to 10 and a half years behind bars.

A mother in New York City who fatally beat her nine-year-old daughter with a broom and electrical cord after a dispute over a missing tablet has now been sentenced to 15 years behind bars.

An arraignment for the teacher is scheduled for May 4 and if convicted, she can face up to a year behind bars for each charge.

And he narrowly avoided spending his first night behind bars after Mr Janke successfully fought off a prosecution detention application.

Apart from the loss of Mr Khan, its main campaigner, the second-tier leadership is either behind bars, or on the run.

Arguelles said that as the days go by and the robbers are not put behind bars, her biggest concern is that instead of only taking the little money that vendors have, they can potentially take the vendors’ lives.

At the time of Valentine’s trial in 1994, prosecutor Michael Pepper argued that Higgins and Coleman were recanting their accusations only because they were afraid of retaliation for putting Valentine behind bars.

Authorities are taking the crackdown on freedoms in Russia to new levels following Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine, with independent media shut down and most key opposition figures behind bars or in exile.

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