jail

Definition:
1. A prison.
2. To put someone in prison.

Use 'jail' in a sentence:

• 1. He's probably going to finish up in jail for business fraud.
• 2. Those two should have been thrown in jail.
• 3. Ford kept his suspicions to himself, even to the extent of going to jail for a murder he obviously didn't commit.
• 4. One prison guard was killed when a riot broke out in the jail.
• 5. He took her to jail, where she was fingerprinted and booked.
• 6. He said that he would one day get out of jail.
• 7. He was jailed for life in 1966 for the murder of three policemen.
• 8. He has been released from jail.
• 9. Before sentence was passed, Mr Mills escaped from jail.
• 10. The parents of persistent truants can be put in jail.
• 11. Mr. Garcia said his conscience was clear over the jail incidents.
• 12. Last night he was being held in solitary confinement in Douglas jail.
• 13. He was found guilty of blasphemy and sentenced to three years in jail.
• 14. Three prisoners escaped from a jail.
• 15. In the end the 'bad guys' are caught and sent to jail.
• 16. He was jailed in February 1992 and could be released next year.
• 17. The colonel was able to orchestrate a rebellion from inside an army jail.
• 18. The judge liked using the word "wicked" of people he had sent to jail.
• 19. Spending a night in jail was his road to Damascus.
• 20. Prison officers continued to patrol the grounds within the jail.
• 21. You could face up to eight years in jail for spreading rumours considered prejudicial to security.
• 22. A forty-foot-high concrete wall encircles the jail.
• 23. He has done five years in the jail.
• 24. Reports are now coming in of trouble at yet another jail.
• 25. Up to a thousand prisoners may be on the loose inside the jail.
• 26. He was in and out of jail for most of his life.
• 27. Burns had escaped from jail time after time.
• 28. She may be sent back to jail after convalescing.
• 29. Several prisoners broke out of the jail.
• 30. He was jailed for five years as an alleged British spy.
• 31. One prisoner was still holding out on the roof of the jail.
• 32. He was led away to jail in handcuffs.
• 33. Rampaging prisoners ran riot through the jail.
• 34. He walked out of jail a free man.
• 35. The judge liked using the word 'wicked' of people he had sent to jail.
• 36. A prisoner has escaped from a jail in northern Texas.
• 37. The government voted to punish corruption in sport with up to four years in jail.
• 38. A man who planned to flood Britain with cocaine was jailed for 15 years.
• 39. The family of the victim said that the killer had got his just deserts when he was jailed for life.
• 40. Criminals are given the option of going to jail or facing public humiliation.
• 41. She spent a year in jail.
• 42. Prisoners have been placed on lockdown to prevent further violence at the jail.
• 43. Police have recaptured Alan Lewis, who escaped from a jail cell in Boston.
• 44. He was jailed for two years for fraud and deception.
• 45. He could be jailed for two years for contempt.
• 46. He was jailed for life for murder.
• 47. He picked a fight with a waiter and landed in jail.
• 48. New evidence has cast doubt on the guilt of the man jailed for the crime.
• 49. Kathryn knows to her cost the effect of having served a jail sentence.
• 50. He finally won his freedom after twenty years in jail.
• 51. Strenuous efforts had been made to improve conditions in the jail.