jail

[dʒeɪl]

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.