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
Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 6 Oct. 2025
He is being held at Bergen County Jail, according to jail records.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Aldo had spent his time in the States terrified that he would be deported back to Cuba and jailed.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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Noun
This benefit concert is in alignment with the plea deal Thug took in October 2024, after being in jail for over two years for RICO allegations.
—Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 6 Oct. 2025
He is being held at Bergen County Jail, according to jail records.
—Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN Money, 6 Oct. 2025
Verb
One of the suspects was preventively jailed for one month and 30 days, the Slantsevsky City Court of the Leningrad Region announced on Saturday, per Izvestia.
—Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2025
Aldo had spent his time in the States terrified that he would be deported back to Cuba and jailed.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for jail
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The story would feature voluminous evidence, including Salvadoran intelligence reports, government documents and even prison logs recording the visits of Luna and other Bukele aides to MS-13 leaders.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Both Menendez brothers remain in prison after having been denied parole in August of this year, and, in September, a judge denied their petition for a new trial.—
Daniel D'Addario,
Variety,
30 Sep. 2025
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Bukele’s administration asked for the return to El Salvador of some of the MS-13 gang leaders who had been arrested in Mexico and imprisoned in the United States.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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Reports suggest that in some cases, the prisoners are still alive when their organs are removed, and some of them may be imprisoned merely as a pretense to securing their organs.—
Cory Franklin,
Twin Cities,
28 Sep. 2025
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Just up the way, the old penitentiary building is famously open for tours and purportedly haunted.—
Idaho Statesman,
Idaho Statesman,
6 Oct. 2025
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He was pronounced dead by lethal injection at 6:40 p.m. at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.—
Greg Wehner,
FOXNews.com,
26 Sep. 2025
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Rocha’s father was a gang member, Reynolds said, and incarcerated during his childhood.—
PJ Green,
Kansas City Star,
3 Oct. 2025
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Combs, 55, will be incarcerated for 50 months, roughly four years, for the two prostitution counts of which he was convicted in July, Judge Arun Subramanian revealed during a hearing in Manhattan federal court this afternoon.—
KiMi Robinson,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Jail.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jail. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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