prison

Definition:
1. A correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment.
2. A prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement.

Use 'prison' in a sentence:

• 1. He says he walks inside the prison without guards, unarmed.
• 2. Sisulu spent close to 30 years in prison.
• 3. The building was easily recognizable as a prison.
• 4. She was sentenced to nine years in prison.
• 5. The prison is infested with rats.
• 6. He had his enemies flung into prison.
• 7. He's been in prison, you know ─ not that it matters.
• 8. The prison service is already under considerable strain.
• 9. The judge sentenced him to five years in prison.
• 10. He now faces the stark reality of life in prison.
• 11. The six long years in prison had coarsened him.
• 12. He managed to smuggle a gun into the prison.
• 13. A new governor took over the prison.
• 14. The years in prison were a nightmare.
• 15. You get time to think in prison.
• 16. He could get life in prison, if convicted.
• 17. She is in prison , awaiting trial.
• 18. He claimed that guards had roughed him up in prison.
• 19. He escaped from prison this morning.
• 20. The state's worst prison riot will force a fundamental reappraisal of prison policy.
• 21. Ten prison officers and three inmates needed hospital treatment following the riot.
• 22. It's the same in any situation: in a prison, hospital or whatever.
• 23. Prison officers are demanding pay parity with the police force.
• 24. He spent five years in prison for his opposition to the regime.
• 25. She continues to languish in a foreign prison.
• 26. Throughout his years in prison, he fought to clear his name.
• 27. Even in prison, he continued to engage in criminal activities.
• 28. This sanitized account of his life does not mention his time in prison.
• 29. The contrary view is that prison provides an excellent education ─ in crime.
• 30. His hospital room had become a prison.
• 31. The prison is opposite the law court.
• 32. The men in prison would never cry openly.
• 33. Ten years of prison had turned him into an old man.
• 34. If you go on like this you'll end up in prison.
• 35. His years in prison have left deep scars.
• 36. I always said he would wind up in prison.
• 37. Reducing prison sentences would send the wrong signals to criminals.
• 38. He was sent to prison for five years.
• 39. Prison conditions have become more brutal.
• 40. The prison service has the twin goals of punishment and rehabilitation.
• 41. He worked in the laundry at Oxford prison.
• 42. Since leaving prison, he's managed to keep his nose clean.
• 43. The author paints a stark picture of life in a prison camp.
• 44. These measures are intended to humanize the prison system.
• 45. The authorities say the prison is now functioning normally.
• 46. He was treated as a hero on his release from prison.
• 47. The love and support of his family sustained him during his time in prison.
• 48. The country is notorious for its appalling prison conditions.
• 49. He is finding prison life "real tough."
• 50. It is simply not the case that prison conditions are improving.
• 51. Long prison sentences can be a very effective deterrent for offenders.
• 52. His original death sentence was commuted to life in prison.
• 53. This will overstretch the prison service's resources.