Examples of jailbird in a Sentence
had spent most of his sorry life as a jailbird in hoosegows across the South
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Becomes a jailbird at a high-security zoo after he’s caught, with the newest Wallace & Gromit film, Vengeance Most Fowl, finding Feathers, all these years later, hell-bent on getting even with the duo who locked him up.
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Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
When Canton jailbird selectman Chris Albert did six months in prison in 1994 for a hit-and-run homicide, who was his lawyer?
A. Judge Auntie Bev
B. Meatball Morrissey
C. Auntie Bev’s brother
D. Adam Lally
2.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 July 2024
Plot: Homer acquires Snake’s luxurious hair after the jailbird is sent to the electric chair.
—Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Movies Review: ‘Joker: Folie á Deux’ pairs two singing jailbirds but skimps on supervillainy
Oct. 4, 2024
The movie was expected to fall short of the original’s impressive debut after generating only $7 million in Thursday previews.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
Twenty years later, an actress named Selma Vaz Dias, who wanted to dramatize Good Morning, Midnight on the radio, found her living in poverty and obscurity in the English countryside with a third husband who also ended an embezzler and a jailbird.
—Vivian Gornick, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
The jailbird and guard stayed in touch over the phone, according to Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 11 May 2022
Rick Flag, who attempts to keep our jailbird antiheroes in line.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 22 June 2021
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Devon Ivie, Vulture, 6 Jan. 2025
When Canton jailbird selectman Chris Albert did six months in prison in 1994 for a hit-and-run homicide, who was his lawyer?
A. Judge Auntie Bev
B. Meatball Morrissey
C. Auntie Bev’s brother
D. Adam Lally
2.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 14 July 2024
Plot: Homer acquires Snake’s luxurious hair after the jailbird is sent to the electric chair.
—Joshua Kurp, Vulture, 4 Nov. 2024
Movies Review: ‘Joker: Folie á Deux’ pairs two singing jailbirds but skimps on supervillainy
Oct. 4, 2024
The movie was expected to fall short of the original’s impressive debut after generating only $7 million in Thursday previews.
—Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2024
Twenty years later, an actress named Selma Vaz Dias, who wanted to dramatize Good Morning, Midnight on the radio, found her living in poverty and obscurity in the English countryside with a third husband who also ended an embezzler and a jailbird.
—Vivian Gornick, The New Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
The jailbird and guard stayed in touch over the phone, according to Lauderdale County Sheriff Rick Singleton.
—Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 11 May 2022
Rick Flag, who attempts to keep our jailbird antiheroes in line.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 22 June 2021
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“Jailbird.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jailbird. Accessed 28 Jan. 2025.
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jailbird
noun
jail·bird
-ˌbərd 
: a person who is or is often in jail
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