How to Use political prisoner in a Sentence

political prisoner

noun

• In the prison, she is forced to wear a yellow badge on her chest identifying her as a political prisoner.
  — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• My uncle was 25, and his stint as a political prisoner lasted eight months.
  — Martina Ibáñez-Baldor, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Kara-Murza is a dissident himself, and a political prisoner of Putin’s.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 May 2024
• The return of the world’s tallest political prisoner to play in a basketball game in her home state seemed a little surreal, and not just because a member of the Phoenix Mercury got the royal treatment.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 8 June 2023
• His real crime: being the political prisoner Putin fears most.
  — Yasmeen Serhan, Time, 27 June 2023
• Méndez said in her response that her father was a political prisoner in Cuba.
  — Sarah Blaskey, Miami Herald, 16 May 2024
• Alexei Navalny was being held captive — a political prisoner — and likely put to death in a faraway Russian prison 40 miles north of the Arctic Circle.
  — Tom Zirpoli, Baltimore Sun, 29 Feb. 2024
• So for every political prisoner that Egypt releases, three more are jailed.
  — Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
• The prize for 1935 had been awarded to another political prisoner: Carl von Ossietzky, in Germany.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 17 July 2023
• Sharansky is a friend of Jimmy Lai, the entrepreneur and democracy activist who is a political prisoner in Hong Kong.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 June 2023
• These islands housed one of the penal colony's most famous convicts: political prisoner Alfred Dreyfus.
  — Karlijn Korpershoek, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 June 2023
• Any project with Panahi’s involvement is automatically under the microscope of the Iranian regime, given that the filmmaker has been in and out of jail as a political prisoner.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 Mar. 2023
• On Fox, Trump was treated simultaneously as a political prisoner, a martyr, and a metaphor.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 4 Apr. 2023
• Félix Maradiaga is a Nicaraguan democracy leader and a former political prisoner.
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 27 Nov. 2023
• Scarpia proclaims that Cavaradossi assisted an escaped political prisoner and imprisons him.
  — Michelle F. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
• Navalny was Russia's highest profile political prisoner.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard and Anna Nemtsova, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Oct 2024