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a dark underground space in a castle used for keeping prisoners
The king threw them into the dungeon.
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Recent Examples of dungeon
Families, jubilant and tearful, comb the dungeons of the old regime in search of loved ones, or traces of them.
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David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Torture chamber or medieval dungeon; all these sorts of phrases could be applicable to Rikers.
—Emily Smith, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
The detainees themselves left their own clues, scratched into the walls of underground cells that are perhaps better described as dungeons.
—Clarissa Ward, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Should you be caught working, you will be picked up and thrown into the fully functional dungeon for a ten-minute time-out.
—Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
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David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2024
Torture chamber or medieval dungeon; all these sorts of phrases could be applicable to Rikers.
—Emily Smith, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Dec. 2024
The detainees themselves left their own clues, scratched into the walls of underground cells that are perhaps better described as dungeons.
—Clarissa Ward, CNN, 12 Dec. 2024
Should you be caught working, you will be picked up and thrown into the fully functional dungeon for a ten-minute time-out.
—Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for dungeon
Recent Examples of Synonyms for dungeon
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To avoid violence, assembled federal agents did not make immediate arrests, but Lyman was later convicted, and served 10 days in jail.Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Jan. 2025
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Yarrow, who resumed his career after serving three months in jail, was pardoned by President Jimmy Carter in 1981.CBS News, CBS News, 7 Jan. 2025
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In 2019, Zeeb was sentenced to four years in prison in one of the country's largest cannabis cases.Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
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The claim: Trump 'faces up to 4 years in prison’ at Jan. 10 sentencing A Jan. 3 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims President-elect Donald Trump could spend several years behind bars after he is sentenced by New York Judge Juan Merchan.Joedy McCreary, USA TODAY, 7 Jan. 2025
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Two years ago the Supreme Court took up a case involving the California law banning sales of pork from pigs raised in tight cages.William Baldwin, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
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Suet blocks are usually put in simple square cages and hung from trees or posts.George Petras, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2025
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Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Dec. 2024
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The government held both Padilla and al-Marri in a Navy brig to keep them out of civilian custody.Brian Michael Jenkins, Foreign Affairs, 1 Feb. 2012
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Inspectors observed four live giant clams in a water tank without any shellstock identification tags.Hannah Poukish, Sacramento Bee, 10 Jan. 2025
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When the steam generators’ water tanks ran dry, heat disappeared, too.Robert Klara, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
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Ultimately, Hazzard was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to perform hard labor at a state penitentiary in Walla Walla, Wash.Sean Neumann, People.com, 5 Jan. 2025
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The staff at Lee penitentiary is 98% White, according to the bureau, and multiple people said that guards seemed to be especially hostile to Black prisoners — who make up 62% of the prison's population.Christie Thompson, NPR, 18 Dec. 2024
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Disinfect boots and other gear when moving between coops.Jalen Williams, Detroit Free Press, 17 Dec. 2024
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Since sharing the initial video, the Australian owner has decided to keep the chickens and has even built a coop.Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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