How to Use cellmate in a Sentence

cellmate

noun

• His cellmate called his name, telling him to turn on the TV.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
• When the new cellmate says the wrong thing, his head swiftly hits the concrete.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
• Try asking your cellmate, in a friendly way, to keep the noise down.
  — Marc Philippe Eskenazi, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
• The staff was aware that Epstein was alone but did not take steps to assign him a new cellmate.
  — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
• Leon Howard was only 16 when he was sentenced to prison for 10 years and heard this from his cellmate.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 16 Jan. 2022
• Christie Smith, her former cellmate, says Smith paid her to procure drugs.
  — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021
• His cellmate taught him the basic stitches and how to read a crochet pattern.
  — Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
• Another man described the death of his friend and cellmate, who had collapsed in between a set of bunk beds.
  — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Jean-Pierre said her son, 33, has lost a lot of weight, is forced to share a bucket with cellmates to relieve himself and is nursing a swollen foot.
  — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 8 June 2023
• His cellmate was a New York man who was serving a 30-month sentence on a gun possession charge.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2022
• Officials did not release the cellmate’s name or share Chemirmir’s cause of death.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
• His cellmate has been charged in his death, which was ruled a homicide by strangulation.
  — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
• His lawyers said Von Staich is now free of symptoms, but his cellmate still suffers from fevers, coughing and other signs of the disease.
  — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2020
• The cellmate of the deceased has been arrested and charged with murder, according to a news release.
  — Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2022
• No one answered except for a former cellmate who began to sob.
  — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
• But when Epstein’s cellmate was transferred out of his cell on the morning on Aug. 9, no action was taken, and Epstein was left alone in his cell.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 27 June 2023
• The victim who reported her car stolen gave police the full name of the alleged thief, who turned out to have been a cellmate of Gaines in 2012 at the federal prison in Sheridan.
  — oregonlive, 11 May 2022
• Deputies say cellmate Kevin Barnes ambushed Geffrard for more than 20 minutes in an attack that was captured on video.
  — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• Jones’ cellmate yelled, while other inmates tried to get the attention of officers, the lawsuit says.
  — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
• His cellmate was convicted of first-degree murder in 2011 and is serving a life sentence.
  — Jake Dima, Washington Examiner, 2 Mar. 2021
• Prison officials will often speak to the potential cellmate of a new arrival to ensure that there won’t be any problems.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 23 Aug. 2022
• The man arrested, 25-year-old D’Angelo Smith, was Barron's cellmate, according to a news release.
  — Hannah Brock, The Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2022
• Osuna had never had a cellmate before Romero, the Times reported.
  — Fox News, 29 May 2021
• Rushing was convicted of murdering his cellmate in 2010 at a state prison in Buckeye.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 12 Apr. 2023
• The suspects are usually not going anywhere, though in this case the third man charged, Sean McKinnon, 36, Geas’s cellmate, had been released.
  — Kevin Cullen, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Aug. 2022
• After an initial 10-day quarantine, prisoners are transferred to the cells where they are either kept alone or joined by up to two cellmates.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 1 June 2023
• Cages crammed with hundreds of men who must sleep on their sides like sardines, as their cellmates wearily stand to make room, and shallow holes scraped from the earth with log and dirt ceilings so low that inmates cannot stand up.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
• But that fall, Atkins was jailed on an unrelated murder charge and bragged to cellmates about the Tate-LaBianca killings, tipping off police and leading to the gang's capture.
  — Harrison Smith, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
• The police quote his lyrics back to him and ask for tickets to his shows, and a cellmate — Staples is arrested after a stop for speeding — wants to sing for him, but more often his name means nothing.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• Investigators say the cellmate confessed the beating and the motive.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 3 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024