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
Jason Volack, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
The 42-year-old dancer was arrested Aug. 29 and booked in Napa County jail.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
His feed contains posts with information about the case of the former governor of Khabarovsk, Sergei Furgal, who was arrested in 2020 and jailed in 2023 in what were seen as politically motivated charges.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Noun
He was sentenced to 150 days in county jail, ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution to the city of Chicago, fined $25,000 and ordered to serve 30 months of felony probation.
—Jason Volack, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
The 42-year-old dancer was arrested Aug. 29 and booked in Napa County jail.
—Kimi Robinson, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
Verb
As in the 2011 case of a major Seattle-area fish distributor who was jailed over false labeling.
—Lauren Leffer, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
His feed contains posts with information about the case of the former governor of Khabarovsk, Sergei Furgal, who was arrested in 2020 and jailed in 2023 in what were seen as politically motivated charges.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Another suspect, Gary Howard Oliva, who spent eight years in prison on child pornography charges, was first named as a person of interest in a 2002 episode of the CBS show 48 Hours Investigates.Emily Blackwood, People.com, 23 Nov. 2024
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Rasoulof had been in prison before, arrested in 2022 for criticizing the government.Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Nov. 2024
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They were imprisoned and force-fed in British prisons after going on hunger strike and, later in life, became disillusioned with the peace process.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 19 Nov. 2024
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Plus, watch two inmates at the R.J. Donovan Correction Facility, where Lyle and Erik are imprisoned, talk about the Rehabilitation Through Beautification project the brothers are also involved in.Dateline NBC, NBC News, 13 Nov. 2024
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From a federal penitentiary in Virginia, Jose Landa-Rodriguez reconnected with an old friend in California.Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2024
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But there’s a war out there in Tulsa, whose lucrative drug trade is not being overseen by the usual cartel, but by a native tribe chief (Graham Greene) who runs the Indian Brotherhood from a state penitentiary.Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2024
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He was incarcerated during much of his son’s childhood, as Sean Boyce Johnson explains below in his tribute to his father.Sean Boyce Johnson, IndieWire, 27 Nov. 2024
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Robert Warren, 28, was incarcerated at North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland, according to a news release from state police.Racquel Bazos, Baltimore Sun, 27 Nov. 2024
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“Jail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jail. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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