How to Use warden in a Sentence

warden

noun
  • There, the warden led him to a dirty pile of roots and small gray logs.
    Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • Jose Morales, who was the warden of the unit that housed Mr. Cofield, could not be reached.
    Vimal Patel, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Three days after that, the warden of the prison was killed, too.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Jose Morales was the warden of the prison when Cofield arrived.
    Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The warden was made aware of the call, according to the lawsuit.
    Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The prison staff didn’t know much about the new acting warden.
    Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • The warden called Dotson's brother on the evening of Nov. 16 and informed him of the death.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The husband tries to get away with shenanigans, and the wife is his warden.
    Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
  • My dad worked as a beach warden, and my mom was a seamstress.
    Vogue, 29 Apr. 2022
  • But two friends from the workhouse have stowed away in the warden's car, with plans to go to New York City.
    Laurie Hertzel, Star Tribune, 30 July 2021
  • Pyle served as the prison’s warden for 15 months and has been employed by DOC for 23 years.
    Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2023
  • The man is a warden, not a geologist as claimed in the post.
    Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
  • The former warden was sentenced to more than five years in prison in March.
    Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The man in the photo, a warden whose name is Syahrul, is one of those caretakers.
    Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Whether the instructions came from the warden or Charles ... who knows?
    Julia Hollingsworth and Adam Renton, CNN, 13 Mar. 2021
  • The prison warden read aloud the death warrant, then asked whether there were any final words.
    New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • The judge added that Simpson did not try to interview the warden.
    Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 20 Oct. 2022
  • There are stowaways in the trunk of the warden’s car who want to take the story in one direction.
    Time, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Two mayors had been murdered, and the warden of a prison in Manabí had been killed.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • So the warden assembled the prison band, which made a quick record that Hill played all night and right up to the gas chamber door.
    Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • He was sent to the city dog warden in Columbus, then to a shelter, where he was rescued.
    Mike Giuliano, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2020
  • In 2017, some were finally caught, and a new warden was named.
    Christian Boone, ajc, 21 Aug. 2021
  • Small notes smuggled to his wife through a prison warden speak to Roenne’s motives.
    Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The brother told the warden that the family wanted the body to be released to them, according to the suit.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The warden recorded the weigh-in on video and measured the fish, cementing Theron Thompson’s place in the record books.
    Joseph Albanese, Field & Stream, 12 Mar. 2021
  • Once again, she was summoned to the warden’s office and told that the trade was imminent.
    J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Four months earlier, the prison’s warden, Ray J. Garcia, was charged with a litany of crimes.
    Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
  • The prison's former warden, Ray Garcia, was sentenced to six years in prison in March 2023.
    USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024
  • But as the Missouri Department of Correction was finalizing his release papers Wednesday, the warden got the call.
    Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 27 July 2024
  • Eventually, someone passed photos of Cruz posing with his bull elk kill on social media to a warden, officials said.
    Brooke Baitinger, Idaho Statesman, 20 June 2024

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