How to Use prisoner in a Sentence

prisoner

noun

• The families were held prisoner for four days.
• He was captured by rebel forces and kept as their prisoner for several months before they set him free.
• Bergdahl walked away from his base in Afghanistan and was held prisoner by the Taliban for years.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 26 July 2023
• The doctor in charge was a Czech prisoner named Alex Grunwald.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
• He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2010, while a prisoner.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 July 2023
• This is not the first time prisoners have taken hostages this summer.
  — Ana María Cañizares, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
• In the West Bank the death toll since Oct. 7 stands at 103, including two Israeli prisoners.
  — Dalia Hatuqa, NBC News, 26 Oct. 2023
• The swap on Wednesday was the latest prisoner exchange between the United States and Venezuela.
  — Lara Jakes, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• As has been the case with previous prisoner exchanges, the swap is likely to take place in a third country.
  — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
• One of those prisoners was Yahya Sinwar, the current Hamas leader.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
• The Bidayuh fought back, and two were shot while seven were taken prisoner and enslaved.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• Iran remains one of the world’s top executioners, having put to death at least 203 prisoners since the start of this year alone.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Some prisoners will only get black-and-white photocopies of their mail.
  — Sanya Mansoor, Time, 20 July 2023
• In the exchange, the U.S. offered up five Iranian prisoners and returned $6 billion in frozen funds for use in Iran.
  — Anders Hagstrom, Fox News, 18 Sep. 2023
• The fifth prisoner had already been held under house arrest.
  — Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 10 Aug. 2023
• Ted was in charge of prisoner activities at Graterford, which scored him the Cosby standup record.
  — Jonathan Rowe and Chris Schwartz, SPIN, 2 Nov. 2023
• The three American prisoners that have been identified were each sentenced to 10 years in prison.
  — Misty Severi, Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2023
• Xu recalled hearing the supplier’s name from a prisoner who stocked gloves.
  — Zhen Wang, Journal Sentinel, 6 May 2023
• Jaar entered the hearing room handcuffed and with shackles on his ankles, wearing a prisoner’s beige shirt and pants.
  — Gisela Salomon, BostonGlobe.com, 2 June 2023
• When three prisoners made a successful escape, suspicious German eyes homed in on the golf course and its sprawling mounds and greens.
  — Jack Bantock, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
• Biden is ''serious'' about a prisoner swap to free Wall Street Journal reporter jailed in Russia.
  — USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• Candé’s killing, for a rare, brief moment, gave some of his fellow prisoners leverage over their captors.
  — Longreads, 3 Aug. 2023
• During the exchange, the U.S. offered up five Iranian prisoners and returned $6 billion in frozen funds for use in Iran.
  — Greg Norman, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2023
• Martha Stewart is known as many things: a homemaker, a prisoner, a cannabis connoisseur/friend of Snoop Doggy Dogg.
  — Vulture, 15 May 2023
• Certain was eventually moved to a larger space in the prison with other prisoners.
  — Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
• Hamas maintains that the chief aim of its Oct. 7 incursion was to kidnap Israeli soldiers in order to force a prisoner exchange.
  — Nabih Bulos and A Times Special Correspondent, Los Angeles Times, 31 Jan. 2024
• In the past, the bodies of Israeli soldiers have been part of prisoner exchange negotiations between the two sides.
  — Sarah Cahlan, Washington Post, 12 Oct. 2023
• From the arrival of the Corps and the Brigade to the flyovers to the prisoner exchange, the annual Army-Navy showdown can be considered the most tradition rich contest in college football.
  — Erick Smith, USA TODAY, 29 Aug. 2023
• The word was most likely coined by camp guards, but Mr. Eyre tells us that it was also used with irony by the prisoners themselves, especially those in whom a will to survive had not been snuffed out.
  — Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 16 June 2023
• It was printed at a press that was operated by prisoners.
  — John J. Lennon, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024