Examples of Borstal in a Sentence
She was sent to Borstal for stealing cars.
He spent a year in a Borstal.
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Next up is performing live at a pub full of old sods and one barmaid with an Instagram account; terrified of jeopardizing his day job, JJ hits the turntables with a tricolor balaclava hiding his face and finds his inner Beastie Boy/Borstal Boy unleashed.
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
When Lionel Blake—known as Tim—was the manager of Hill Cove Farm, on West Falkland, in the nineteen-sixties, there were juvenile delinquents working there, one of whom had come to the Falklands straight out of Borstal.
—Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
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Ty Burr, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2024
When Lionel Blake—known as Tim—was the manager of Hill Cove Farm, on West Falkland, in the nineteen-sixties, there were juvenile delinquents working there, one of whom had come to the Falklands straight out of Borstal.
—Larissa MacFarquhar, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
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“Borstal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Borstal. Accessed 25 Apr. 2025.
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