as in prison
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
sentenced to three years in jail for his crime
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as in to imprison
to put in or as if in prison
threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked
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Recent Examples of jail
Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
There is no criminal complaint, so nobody is at risk of jail time.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Brittany Friedman, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2025
Now one of those men has been jailed, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
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Noun
Blaming the Pretrial Fairness Act because more people are in Kane County jail is overly simplistic and just wrong.
—Courier-News, Chicago Tribune, 21 Feb. 2025
There is no criminal complaint, so nobody is at risk of jail time.
—James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Feb. 2025
Verb
From Martin Luther King Jr. to U.S. Rep. John Lewis, Black activists were identified as a threat, spied on, investigated and sometimes jailed.
—Brittany Friedman, The Conversation, 21 Feb. 2025
Now one of those men has been jailed, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office.
—Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2025
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Noun
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In 2018, President Trump commuted the prison sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, who had served 22 years for drug trafficking and money laundering charges.—
Anna Kaufman,
USA TODAY,
25 Feb. 2025
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Separated from his regiment in the fighting, Thomas was captured by the enemy but has tunneled his way out of prison.—
Julia M. Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Feb. 2025
Verb
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Arrested by the new regime, the captain was imprisoned for seven months and suffered regular and severe torture, including the amputation of a testicle.—
George Packer,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2025
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In the movie, Isaiah is framed for an attack on the president, and a throng of police officers chase him across White House grounds and eventually imprison him.—
Maya Phillips,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The complaints at Lee mirror accounts from what was then a federal penitentiary, USP Thomson in Illinois, especially the overuse of four-point restraints.—
Christie Thompson,
NPR,
18 Dec. 2024
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Lamberth also noted that there are only about 16 transgender women housed in female penitentiaries, including the three plaintiffs who sued.—
Anders Fogh Rasmussen,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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Among those believed to have been incarcerated soon after setting foot back in the country are two former members of the Venezuelan armed forces who broke with the Nicolás Maduro regime and had been attempting to obtain political asylum in the United States.—
Antonio Maria Delgado,
Miami Herald,
26 Feb. 2025
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He was denied bond and remained incarcerated until his trial began last February.—
David Peisner,
Rolling Stone,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Jail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jail. Accessed 6 Mar. 2025.
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