How to Use high-security in a Sentence

high-security

adjective
  • Since then, Assange has spent the past five years in Belmarsh, one of the U.K.’s most high-security prisons.
    Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 25 June 2024
  • These men were among nearly 200 inmates who left a high-security Russian prison to join the war in Ukraine.
    Oleg Matsnev Gray Beltran, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Armed guards stand at the entrance to its high-security chamber.
    Beth Py-Lieberman, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Sep. 2023
  • The festival holds an annual screening and gala at the city’s high-security prison, the JVA.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2024
  • There are 254 women inside the high-security unit where the problems were believed to have occurred.
    Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The trucks are like middlemen between banks ready to have their cash inspected and the Fed, which receives the bills through high-security doors and windows.
    Emily Wright, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2023
  • Putin’s main democratic rival, Alexei Navalny, is in a high-security prison in the far north, safely out of view.
    Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 8 Jan. 2024
  • There was none of the sporadic gunfire that had made the area a high-security risk as gangs sought to take control of the nearby National Palace, but the atmosphere was still one of unease.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
  • The court filings raise new questions about why Mr. Teixeira had such a high-security clearance and access to some of the nation’s most classified secrets.
    Alanna Durkin Richer and Eric Tucker, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Apr. 2023
  • The facility is built amid farmland, and lies between a high-security prison and a medieval castle.
    Gaby Wood, Vogue, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Tuesday's judgment means Assange remains in legal limbo, in a high-security prison on the edge of London.
    Fatima Al-Kassab, NPR, 26 Mar. 2024
  • The 2022 incident took place in a high-security unit at Men’s Central Jail, where all prisoners are handcuffed through a door slot before they’re allowed to leave their cells.
    Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 8 June 2024
  • He had been convicted on charges including drug trafficking and homicide in 2011 and was being held in a high-security prison in Guyaquil.
    Aicha El Hammar Castano, ABC News, 13 Jan. 2024
  • Back in the febrile 1960s, this job had required high-security clearance, and at first production moved location every few months.
    Nicholas Foulkes, Robb Report, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Drive onto any high-security government facility and you will be stopped at the gate by guards who use a mirror at the end of a pole to look under your vehicle.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 9 July 2023
  • Very few people reportedly knew about the tens of millions in cash inside a high-security vault in the San Fernando Valley.
    Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Jurors will have to agree unanimously that Saipov should be put to death or the 35-year-old former Paterson, New Jersey, resident will spend the rest of his life in a high-security prison.
    Larry Neumeister, ajc, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Khan was sentenced to three years in prison in a graft case earlier this month and is currently being held at the high-security Attock prison in eastern Punjab province.
    Time, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Assange has been held for the last five years in Belmarsh Prison, a high-security facility in southeastern London.
    Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 20 May 2024
  • On Tuesday, in a high-security Dresden courtroom, five men — all from the same notorious Berlin crime family — were convicted and sentenced for their role in the heist and the getaway.
    Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
  • Like the high-security site, however, the tunnels were ambiguous.
    William J. Broad, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Each chain segment is built from 10-millimeter, six-sided links of hardened steel, all connecting to a high-security deadbolt.
    Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 5 Feb. 2024
  • The prison has the capacity to hold over 900 inmates and is known for once housing infamous terror suspects such as Abu Hamza al-Masri within its high-security unit.
    Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN, 25 June 2024
  • Athletes and high-profile French representatives brought the flame to land in Marseille at an extremely high-security event.
    Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • There are dramatic 23-foot ceilings throughout, in addition to hardwood flooring and tons of custom glass windows and high-security doors.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Is ordering tools off Amazon that will be used to break into a high-security apartment complex really prudent?
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The high-security island is known for providing absolute privacy for its residents thanks to its own police force and gated bridge to enter.
    Natalia Senanayake, Peoplemag, 8 Mar. 2024
  • The legislation would provide $1.4 billion a year to the postal services to install high-security collection boxes opened by electronic keys that letter carriers say would be faster and safer to use.
    Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 1 May 2024
  • Assange was taken to Belmarsh prison on the outskirts of London, a high-security facility filled with hardened criminals.
    William Booth, Washington Post, 25 June 2024
  • The high-security atmosphere is tangible in central Paris.
    Dave Lawler, Axios, 26 July 2024

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