Scottish

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for tolbooth
Noun
  • Starting in the 1880s, the city and county each built a series of increasingly spacious jails—and then proceeded to fill them well above capacity each winter.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Grayson has been held in the Macon County jail ahead of his trial.
    Deena Zaru, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Regarding the lack of disciplinary records documenting policy violations, Payne placed blame on prison staff for failure to write Holt up for disciplinary violations.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 22 Oct. 2025
  • In August 2024, Lorincz was convicted on the manslaughter charge, and in November, a judge sentenced her to 25 years in prison.
    Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Portlaoise Prison, which is in the center of Ireland, is a nineteenth-century penitentiary built like a fortress—a one-star establishment, at best.
    Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
  • If found guilty of a level 5 felony, Sanchez could be imprisoned anywhere from one to six years at an Indiana penitentiary and fined up to $10,000, according to the Indiana Code.
    Jade Jackson, IndyStar, 12 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • M’Benga makes the difficult decision to send Gamble, or whatever, to the brig.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 7 Aug. 2025
  • 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
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“Tolbooth.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tolbooth. Accessed 25 Oct. 2025.

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