as in prison
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
sentenced to three years in jail for his crime
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as in to imprison
to put in or as if in prison
threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked
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Recent Examples of jail
Michael Nied, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
For that, 69-year-old Peters sits in the Larimer County jail, just a few months into the first part of her 9-year sentence.
—Mike Davis, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2025
San José mayor proposes jailing homeless people who repeatedly refuse shelter.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
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Noun
He was not sentenced to jail time but did have to complete a domestic violence treatment program as a result of his convictions.
—Michael Nied, People.com, 19 Mar. 2025
For that, 69-year-old Peters sits in the Larimer County jail, just a few months into the first part of her 9-year sentence.
—Mike Davis, The Denver Post, 19 Mar. 2025
Verb
Listen to this article A man who felt evil’s presence on an American Airlines flight attacked flight attendants and swallowed rosary beads before he was subdued and jailed in Savannah, Ga., authorities said.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 Mar. 2025
San José mayor proposes jailing homeless people who repeatedly refuse shelter.
—Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jail
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Three days later, his immigration attorney was able to reach an ICE official who confirmed that his client was in a prison in another country.—
Brian Bennett,
TIME,
21 Mar. 2025
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One of the five men convicted in the 2022 drugging and robbery of patrons at gay bars in Manhattan was slapped with eight years in prison on Thursday.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
20 Mar. 2025
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But families of three men who appear to have been deported and imprisoned in El Salvador told the Miami Herald that their relatives have no gang affiliation – and two said their relatives had never been charged with a crime in the U.S. or elsewhere.—
Syra Ortiz Blanes,
Miami Herald,
18 Mar. 2025
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A day later, the WFP announced one of its staffers died while imprisoned by the Houthis.—
Jon Gambrell,
Chicago Tribune,
17 Mar. 2025
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In Oklahoma, 56-year-old Wendell Grissom was declared dead by lethal injection at the penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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Salvador's Presidency Press Office via AFP - Getty Images Origins in prison Tren de Aragua began in the 2000s in a notorious penitentiary in north-central Venezuela, where gang leaders at one point had their own zoo, nightclub and bank inside the prison.—
David Noriega,
NBC News,
18 Mar. 2025
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The teens, meanwhile, are incarcerated in its juvenile facility.—
Bailey Richards,
People.com,
23 Mar. 2025
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Still, Naz, whose solitary ways confuse his family, very much wishes that Aziza wasn’t meeting his adamantine mother, Claudine (LaTanya Richardson Jackson), or his famous father, or his ex-state-senator older brother, Junior (Glenn Davis), recently incarcerated for embezzling campaign funds.—
Helen Shaw,
The New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2025
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“Jail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jail. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.
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