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
Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Speaking on the April 7 episode of Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson podcast, the 54-year-old actress — who shares daughters Sami Sheen, 21, and Lola Sheen. 19, with her famous ex — recalled one Christmas when the Two and a Half Men star, 59, ended up in jail.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
The fact these losers want to jail Andrew and Tristan Tate for preaching their version of traditional masculinity highlights the fact that these fascist feminists are fragile weaklings incapable of defending their position in the free marketplace of ideas.
—David Catanese, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
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Noun
As of Tuesday morning, jail records did not show Diego in custody and the nature of his injuries were unknown.
—Sacbee.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Speaking on the April 7 episode of Sibling Revelry with Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson podcast, the 54-year-old actress — who shares daughters Sami Sheen, 21, and Lola Sheen. 19, with her famous ex — recalled one Christmas when the Two and a Half Men star, 59, ended up in jail.
—Rachel McRady, People.com, 7 Apr. 2025
Verb
Some of Trump’s loudest supporters seemed unsurprised that some of those swept up in deportations and jailed in El Salvador had no criminal record.
—Brian Bennett, TIME, 21 Mar. 2025
The fact these losers want to jail Andrew and Tristan Tate for preaching their version of traditional masculinity highlights the fact that these fascist feminists are fragile weaklings incapable of defending their position in the free marketplace of ideas.
—David Catanese, Miami Herald, 20 Mar. 2025
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Noun
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His lawyers said Mahdi's original attorneys put on a shallow case trying to spare his life that didn't call on relatives, teachers or others who knew him and ignored the impact of months spent in solitary confinement in prison as a teen.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Alexander Smirnov was sentenced to six years in prison in January after pleading guilty to lying to his FBI handler about the Biden family's ties to a Ukrainian energy company -- in addition to a series of unrelated tax fraud charges.—
Alexander Mallin,
ABC News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Union leaders and journalists who criticized Bukele have also been imprisoned.—
Gisela Salim-Peyer,
The Atlantic,
10 Apr. 2025
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He is imprisoned in El Salvador, where he was sent with other migrants accused of being gang members.—
Albert Sun,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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The money will help sustain El Salvador’s penitentiary system, which currently costs $200 million a year.—
Michael Rios,
CNN,
17 Mar. 2025
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In Oklahoma, 56-year-old Wendell Grissom was declared dead by lethal injection at the penitentiary in McAlester at 10:13 a.m.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
21 Mar. 2025
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That probably couldn’t have been stopped unless she had been incarcerated — but two things should happen now.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
5 Apr. 2025
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Baseball was a way of life in the camps that incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 Apr. 2025
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“Jail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jail. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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