jail

[US]/dʒeɪl/
[UK]/dʒeɪl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. prison; confinement
vt. to imprison; to confine

Example Sentences

a jail population; jail conditions.

he was jailed for 12 years.

sentenced to jail for 15 days

He was jailed for two years.

The jailer did violence to prisoners.

He was jailed for life for murder.

I might be festering in jail now.

he was in and out of jail for most of his twenties.

he spent 15 years in jail .

the driver was jailed for two years.

he is serving a ten-year jail sentence.

they face stiff fines and a possible jail sentence.

suspend a jail sentence; suspend all parking regulations.

Jail got into the music school by scraping through the examination.

He was banged up in a Nepal jail for six months.

a Wall Street dealer jailed for insider trading

he has been languishing in a Mexican jail since 1974.

he may be jailed for his part in the robbery.

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