Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolbooth
Noun
  • Seven inmates are still at large on May 19 after escaping from a New Orleans jail through a hole behind a toilet.
    N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 20 May 2025
  • The attack lands him behind bars, not for the first time, with his seven-month jail stint an interstice covered by the first of Dickinson’s vertiginous reality-break sequences.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • In that case, Douglas was sentenced to five years of probation and had his 2-year prison sentence stayed, court documents say.
    Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 19 May 2025
  • In June 2024, three people were sentenced to eight months in prison after being found guilty of racially abusing Vinicius Jr in that May 2023 match at Valencia.
    Colin Millar, New York Times, 19 May 2025
Noun
  • Stroud was one of several notorious men who have called the Leavenworth penitentiary home.
    Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 6 May 2025
  • Although best known for its 29 years as a federal penitentiary, the island of Alcatraz was also a military fort, used by the army during the Civil War to protect San Francisco from Confederate raiders.
    Louise McLoughlin, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
Noun
  • Even if one of the arriving Republic cruisers is probably about to scoop him up and throw him into a proper brig.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Meanwhile, any question that Jod and Captain Silvo (the pirate whose crew mutinied in the series premiere) are one and the same was dismissed, when Brutus and his crew spoke of how Silvo had escaped the brig before facing a trial.
    Matt Webb Mitovich, TVLine, 10 Dec. 2024
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“Tolbooth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolbooth. Accessed 22 May. 2025.

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