Examples of jailhouse in a Sentence
received a tip from an informant inside the county jailhouse
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Morgan shot and killed Lenny Scott, who was a jailhouse guard while Morgan was previously behind bars and had exposed the affair Morgan was having with a female guard after discovering a secret cellphone in his cell during a search, according to prosecutors with the CPS.
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Brown is being detained at a jailhouse in Columbia, South Carolina.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Austin Robert Drummond, the 28-year-old suspect in the July 29 killings of four members of a family in Tennessee, spoke publicly for the first time in a recorded jailhouse call with a reporter.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
As Hall began to test the waters with his jailhouse interlocutor (Taron Egerton) by getting ever more grotesque, his voice dropped down a register.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2025
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Sean Neumann, People.com, 2 Sep. 2025
Brown is being detained at a jailhouse in Columbia, South Carolina.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 28 Aug. 2025
Austin Robert Drummond, the 28-year-old suspect in the July 29 killings of four members of a family in Tennessee, spoke publicly for the first time in a recorded jailhouse call with a reporter.
—Jenna Sundel, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
As Hall began to test the waters with his jailhouse interlocutor (Taron Egerton) by getting ever more grotesque, his voice dropped down a register.
—Nate Jones, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2025
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“Jailhouse.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jailhouse. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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jailhouse
noun
jail·house
ˈjāl-ˌhau̇s 
: jail
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