How to Use cellmate in a Sentence

cellmate

noun
  • The cellmate's name has not been released.
    Tim Fang, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Try asking your cellmate, in a friendly way, to keep the noise down.
    Marc Philippe Eskenazi, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The family learned of his death through a cellmate.
    Muhammad Darwish, CNN Money, 17 Nov. 2025
  • When the new cellmate says the wrong thing, his head swiftly hits the concrete.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • When his cellmate brought in two lunch trays, Brown didn't respond.
    Christopher Damien, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Foster's cellmate was in the cell at the time, but was not named as a suspect.
    Jt Moodee Lockman, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Cordell shot his cellmates a desperate look.
    Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Epstein also claimed at the time that his cellmate had tried to extort him.
    Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The man was later pronounced dead and his cellmate was detained by deputies.
    Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 13 Mar. 2025
  • His cellmate claimed Epstein tried to hang himself.
    Michael Ruiz, FOXNews.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The staff was aware that Epstein was alone but did not take steps to assign him a new cellmate.
    Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • There are a few scenes of Colman being in prison and talking to a cellmate.
    Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025
  • His cellmate taught him the basic stitches and how to read a crochet pattern.
    Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
  • No one answered except for a former cellmate who began to sob.
    Vivian Yee, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • He would often be awoken in the night by his cellmates defecating.
    Nico Lang, Them, 26 July 2024
  • The cellmate claims Gray told him there was plastic sheeting laying on the floor.
    Natalie Morales, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • His cellmate has been charged in his death, which was ruled a homicide by strangulation.
    Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
  • No one knew where his body was, but the family believed the cellmate’s account.
    Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • While in custody, Reyes also tried to kill his cellmate with a shank, Burke said.
    Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Christie Smith, her former cellmate, says Smith paid her to procure drugs.
    Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021
  • Paired with a volatile cellmate, Troy is forced to deal with daily threats and power struggles.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 12 Feb. 2026
  • Another man described the death of his friend and cellmate, who had collapsed in between a set of bunk beds.
    Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • No deputy responded through the cell’s intercom and his cellmate told him to be quiet.
    Christopher Damien, USA Today, 1 Feb. 2026
  • Deputies said one cellmate told authorities that Inaru brought up the plot every day.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Every day and every week, some of our cellmates are sent to the gallows, and many of us spend our nights in the nightmare of death.
    Beth Bailey, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2025
  • Márquez said Friday that the cellmate heard the fall and found Pittman unconscious on the floor.
    Caleb Lunetta, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The cellmate was revived, but Washington was pronounced dead at the jail.
    Theresa Clift may 29, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
  • Officials did not release the cellmate’s name or share Chemirmir’s cause of death.
    Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • He was killed in a Texas prison by a cellmate in 2023, officials said.
    Christina Coulter, Fox News, 18 May 2024
  • The two argued, the cellmate said, and when Williams woke up in the morning, Yarborough was dead.
    Gina Barton, USA Today, 2 May 2025

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