How to Use warden in a Sentence
warden
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There, the warden led him to a dirty pile of roots and small gray logs.
—Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
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Jose Morales, who was the warden of the unit that housed Mr. Cofield, could not be reached.
—Vimal Patel, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2022
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Three days after that, the warden of the prison was killed, too.
—Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
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Jose Morales was the warden of the prison when Cofield arrived.
—Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
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The warden was made aware of the call, according to the lawsuit.
—Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
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The prison staff didn’t know much about the new acting warden.
—Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2022
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The warden called Dotson's brother on the evening of Nov. 16 and informed him of the death.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
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The husband tries to get away with shenanigans, and the wife is his warden.
—Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
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My dad worked as a beach warden, and my mom was a seamstress.
—Vogue, 29 Apr. 2022
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Pyle served as the prison’s warden for 15 months and has been employed by DOC for 23 years.
—Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 27 July 2023
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The man is a warden, not a geologist as claimed in the post.
—Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
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The former warden was sentenced to more than five years in prison in March.
—Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
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The man in the photo, a warden whose name is Syahrul, is one of those caretakers.
—Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
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The prison warden read aloud the death warrant, then asked whether there were any final words.
—New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
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The judge added that Simpson did not try to interview the warden.
—Ivana Hrynkiw | Ihrynkiw@al.com, al, 20 Oct. 2022
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So the warden assembled the prison band, which made a quick record that Hill played all night and right up to the gas chamber door.
—Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2022
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The brother told the warden that the family wanted the body to be released to them, according to the suit.
—Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 14 Dec. 2023
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Four months earlier, the prison’s warden, Ray J. Garcia, was charged with a litany of crimes.
—Libor Janystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2022
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Other prisoners shouted and banged on the bars of their cells, and the prison warden rushed to berate them.
—Alma Guillermoprieto, The New Yorker, 10 Mar. 2022
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Brooks was followed by his 27-year-old son, who grabbed a life jacket, the warden service said.
—CBS News, 10 July 2023
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The warden arrested the man for criminal trespass and gave him a ride to the Bexar County Jail.
—John Goodspeed, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Dec. 2021
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Bowditch promptly calls in the state police and the warden dive team, who find the rest of the body and then, unbelievably, a second naked corpse.
—Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 17 Aug. 2023
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Valdés said the prison’s warden told her they were embarrassed by the incident.
—Romy Ellenbogen, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2024
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Many of the policies are subject to exceptions, if the warden approves.
—Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2021
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Ten months later, he was summoned to the warden’s office for a legal call.
—Rachel Poser, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
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The warden eventually wrangled the bobcat with his catch pole and, with the help of a deputy who drew back the broken grille, pulled the feline out.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
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The San Antonio bust is not the biggest in Winters’s career as a game warden.
—Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
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That new warden was Randall Haas, who has since retired.
—Paul Egan, Detroit Free Press, 13 Apr. 2022
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Casey White’s attorney, Jamy Poss, asked for the exemption in writing in a letter to the warden.
—Fox News, 12 May 2022
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The sheriff’s office shared a two-minute bodycam video showing the warden and deputies working to remove the big cat from the driver’s car.
—Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2023
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