How to Use reformatory in a Sentence

reformatory

noun

• There was that three-year stint in a reformatory, as a teen-ager, for armed robbery and auto theft.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2017
• But in fact the bar is always coming up with these kinds of reformatory codes.
  — Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
• Berry served three years of a 10-year sentence at a reformatory.
  — Hillel Italie and Jim Suhr, Esquire, 18 Mar. 2017
• The tunnel and sewer pipe used in Andy’s escape were props used in the movie that are on display inside the reformatory.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
• Some of the actors from the film will be on hand for the festivities, and there will be tours of the reformatory, which is reputed to harbor ghosts.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• That was followed by mass testing of all staff and inmates at the reformatory.
  — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2020
• In the Jim Crow Florida of the early 1960s, two boys land in a juvenile reformatory and fight to have a future.
  — John Timpane, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• After leaving the reformatory, she was sent to live with a distant relative of her mother.
  — Petula Dvorak, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2020
• But police said the place was not licensed to run any reformatory or educational program.
  — Sam Olukoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• Designed to be self-supporting — by using prison labor — the complex housed a farm, reformatory and penitentiary.
  — Alison Lake, Washington Post, 27 May 2018
• The reformatory has a capacity for around 1,000 inmates.
  — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2020
• There was that three-year stint in a reformatory, as a teen-ager, for armed robbery and auto theft.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2017
• But in fact the bar is always coming up with these kinds of reformatory codes.
  — Michael Knox Beran, National Review, 6 Feb. 2020
• Berry served three years of a 10-year sentence at a reformatory.
  — Hillel Italie and Jim Suhr, Esquire, 18 Mar. 2017
• The tunnel and sewer pipe used in Andy’s escape were props used in the movie that are on display inside the reformatory.
  — Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 21 July 2019
• Some of the actors from the film will be on hand for the festivities, and there will be tours of the reformatory, which is reputed to harbor ghosts.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2019
• That was followed by mass testing of all staff and inmates at the reformatory.
  — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2020
• In the Jim Crow Florida of the early 1960s, two boys land in a juvenile reformatory and fight to have a future.
  — John Timpane, https://www.inquirer.com, 5 June 2019
• After leaving the reformatory, she was sent to live with a distant relative of her mother.
  — Petula Dvorak, Anchorage Daily News, 20 May 2020
• But police said the place was not licensed to run any reformatory or educational program.
  — Sam Olukoya, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2019
• Designed to be self-supporting — by using prison labor — the complex housed a farm, reformatory and penitentiary.
  — Alison Lake, Washington Post, 27 May 2018
• The reformatory has a capacity for around 1,000 inmates.
  — Deborah Yetter, The Courier-Journal, 3 Aug. 2020

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