Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolbooth
Noun
  • Two days later, nightclub owner Jack Ruby fatally shot Oswald during a jail transfer.
    arkansasonline.com, arkansasonline.com, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Willie Frank Peterson, 52, was convicted of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 2023, and was sentenced to six years and three months in jail.
    Andrea Margolis, Fox News, 20 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Tolbooth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolbooth. Accessed 1 Apr. 2025.

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