as in prison
a place of confinement for persons held in lawful custody
sentenced to three years in jail for his crime
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as in to imprison
to put in or as if in prison
threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked
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Recent Examples of jail
Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
Kerik, an Army veteran, rose to the pinnacle of law enforcement before a fall so steep that even a city jail named after him was renamed.
—CBS News, 30 May 2025
Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2025
Jelly Roll had been jailed over 40 times for various drug charges.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 23 May 2025
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Noun
He was being held in the jail until his sentencing.
—Peter D'abrosca, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025
Kerik, an Army veteran, rose to the pinnacle of law enforcement before a fall so steep that even a city jail named after him was renamed.
—CBS News, 30 May 2025
Verb
Boyd was originally jailed for second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder, aggravated battery and threatening a public official.
—Stepheny Price, FOXNews.com, 24 May 2025
Jelly Roll had been jailed over 40 times for various drug charges.
—Marina Watts, People.com, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jail
Noun
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He was convicted again about a decade later and sentenced to more time in prison.—
Lisa Hagen,
Hartford Courant,
31 May 2025
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After a guilty plea, Brown faces up to 20 years in prison.—
Kelly Phillips Erb,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
Verb
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Law enforcement officers in Arkansas were on the hunt Wednesday for a former police chief who broke out of a state facility where he was imprisoned for rape and murder.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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Larry Hoover remains imprisoned under a state murder conviction despite the commutation of his federal sentences by President Donald Trump.—
Tahar Rajab,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 May 2025
Noun
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The gallows, where 15 penitentiary inmates were executed by hanging, were no longer there.—
Tammy Ljungblad,
Kansas City Star,
17 May 2025
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Instead, Trump took a number of potshots at his sometime opponent during a Tuesday press conference, less than 48 hours after ordering the Bureau of Prisons to reopen Alcatraz as a federal penitentiary.—
Nicole Nixon,
Sacbee.com,
7 May 2025
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In the early predawn hours of Friday, May 16, no sheriff's deputy was assigned to the part of the jail where the escaped inmates were incarcerated, and a civilian worker monitoring the area had briefly stepped away to get food, according to the sheriff's office.—
Alex Sundby,
CBS News,
21 May 2025
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But that plan hinges on reducing the number of people incarcerated.—
Justyna Rzewinski,
New York Daily News,
21 May 2025
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“Jail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jail. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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