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
City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025
Some of the individuals were still in jail at the time the dataset cut off: 11:59 p.m.
—Ariane Lange
july 4, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2025
Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
When he was later jailed on unrelated matters, Menzies had Hunsaker’s wallet and several other items that belonged to her.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
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Noun
Heard had been arrested in 2019 on allegations of stabbing another man and spent seven months in jail.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 July 2025
Some of the individuals were still in jail at the time the dataset cut off: 11:59 p.m.
—Ariane Lange
july 4, Sacbee.com, 4 July 2025
Verb
Guevara was jailed in DeKalb County, which includes parts of Atlanta, on charges of obstructing police, unlawful assembly, and improperly entering a roadway.
—Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 June 2025
When he was later jailed on unrelated matters, Menzies had Hunsaker’s wallet and several other items that belonged to her.
—Landon Mion, FOXNews.com, 7 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jail
Noun
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If convicted, the charges carry sentences that could send her to prison for years.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
6 July 2025
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An ex-con who went to prison for shooting a teenager to death during a birthday party went on to go into business as a gun trafficker in Queens after his release on parole, federal prosecutors say.—
John Annese,
New York Daily News,
6 July 2025
Verb
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Those imprisoned under that code were forced to wear a pink triangle to denote homosexuality.—
Ashley Mackin Solomon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 June 2025
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The crackdown left hundreds killed, thousands imprisoned and several executed.—
Sahar Zand,
ABC News,
28 June 2025
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On top of her one-year sentence on obscenity charges, Adams was sentenced to six months at a women’s penitentiary—a pair of punishments that allowed authorities to start considering whether to ship her back to Poland upon her release from prison.—
Kellie B. Gormly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
26 June 2025
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Weger was taken to the Illinois state penitentiary in Joliet to begin his life sentence.—
Kori Rumore,
Chicago Tribune,
26 June 2025
Verb
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But Alexander denied Echols' request in June 2022, saying Arkansas Act 1780 of 2001 only allows incarcerated people the opportunity to seek new evidence testing.—
Bill Bowden,
Arkansas Online,
27 June 2025
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Max Ludwig Nansen, a Fictional Painter Turned Martyr Set in Germany in the 1950s, the novel is told through the eyes of Siggi, a young man incarcerated in a prison for delinquent youths.—
Ombline Damy,
JSTOR Daily,
26 June 2025
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“Jail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jail. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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