cellmate

noun

cell·mate ˈsel-ˌmāt

variants or less commonly cell mate

plural cellmates also cell mates

: a person who shares a prison cell with another prisoner

When his cellmates learned that his bond had been set at $1 million (and bail at $500,000), they broke into laughter and shook their heads in disbelief.—

Richard Behar

Within a week, guards came by at night and told me to get ready. … I said goodbye to my cellmates and gathered my things …—

Clare Morgana Gillis

Examples of cellmate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.

Brown maintains contact with Wells' parents, in addition to writing letters to his former cellmate. —

Gord Magill, Newsweek, 21 Dec. 2024 At the time of the gag order, Horwitz served as the attorney for the family of Terry Childress, an inmate who died in February 2021 after his cellmate assaulted him in CoreCivic’s Trousdale Turner Correctional Center in Hartsville. —

Angele Latham, The Tennessean, 1 Oct. 2024 Owens also killed his cellmate at the Greenville County Jail after his conviction in 1999, but before his sentencing. —

Landon Mion, Fox News, 1 Sep. 2024 One of Joe’s cellmates was a young punk from West Dallas named Raymond Hamilton. —

Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 22 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for cellmate