Wondering how to use Prison in a sentence? Below are 20 example sentences from real English texts. Including the meaning and synonyms such as situation.
Prison meaning
- A place or institution where people are held against their will, in the US especially for long-term confinement, as of those convicted of serious crimes or otherwise considered undesirable by the government.
- Confinement in prison.
- Any restrictive environment, such as a harsh academy or home.
Synonyms of Prison
Example sentences (20)
The outside of Tora Prison in Cairo, an Egyptian prison complex for criminal and political detainees, in a 2015 photo.
McFarland was sentenced to six years in prison for fraud related to the event, and he was released from prison in 2022.
Bahrain prison inmates are taking part in a hunger strike over conditions in Jaw prison, activists and authorities said.
Before that, she had been appointed acting prison director in October 2014 and prison director in April 2016.
Prison Architect 2 has a new video to check out, as the team delves deeper into the actual Career Mode of running a prison.
But when he was in prison I asked him, and he told me it would be easier if he went to prison than Shanna.
But if you’re Alexei Navalny, they’ll put you in prison, give you a 19-year prison sentence for nothing.
Jared Owens has 18 ½ years of prison under his belt, he said, 13 of which were spent in federal prison — the same one as Krimes.
Prison officers watching over prisoners as they take their daily one hour's outdoor exercise at Strangeways Prison in Manchester.
Each of the indecent assault charges attracts a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and seven years prison for the other charge.
His first prison mug shot shows him wearing orange prison attire with long hair and a beard.
The prison director said members of a prison gang called Rotela Clan were behind the unrest.
Closing the prison is in line with a decrease in prison populations, Healey said Wednesday.
Living in the shadow of Dartmoor Prison, locals have a front-row seat to some truly wild tales - from bold prison breakouts to raging riots.
Inside every prison, incarcerated people must comply with the prison’s disciplinary code.
Iran Human Rights reported that 26 men were hanged in Ghezelhesar Prison near Tehran, while three others were executed in Karaj’s city prison.
The maximum sentence is four years in prison, though in most cases involving prison time, defendants are typically sentenced to a year or less.
It is relatively easy for prisoners to get contraband into the jail via throw-overs because the prison exercise area is close to the prison wall.
On May 30, 2023, Elizabeth entered prison at the Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas.
If I send you to prison on this matter then all of the other five orders would collapse and there would be prison sentences substituted for those.
Phrases with prison
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Common combinations with prison
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- in prison 77×
- the prison 69×
- prison in 27×
- prison and 23×
- prison for 21×
- from prison 13×
- of prison 13×
- prison on 11×
- state prison 10×
- prison sentence 10×
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