A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)
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A short light metallic sound.
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Examples for "jail "
Examples for "jail "
1 But he said he had no easy answers to the jail 's challenges.
2 Indeed, the jail - breaking and underground app community thrives, by most reasonable measures.
3 THE appearance of things at the jail was forlorn in the extreme.
4 Whether this is a true get - out - of - jail card for Vonage we don't know.
5 Once in Daddy Skinner, in the jail - she had given way before it.
1 None the less, she had passed several nights in the local gaol .
2 Matthew said, as the gaol - keeper found the proper key from his ring.
3 The fellow sent for me to go and see him in gaol .
4 They only represent the criminals actually in gaol on a given day.
5 So Maliwe was marched, carrying the corpus delicti, in to the gaol .
1 If we get caught we'd be for sure doing some jailhouse time.
2 Dunn, in his own words and jailhouse letters, had deep-seated racial prejudices.
3 In a jailhouse interview with local station KTNV, Newman denied the charges.
4 He provided them to Mayor Gavin Newsom in a secret jailhouse interview.
5 There are rules to taking a beating, jailhouse rules, tried and true.
1 She seems to have gone to live in a very poky place.
2 And it was in that poky , cage-like den he breathed his last.
3 There is nothing at all to do, but to take poky walks.
4 I'd rather have any ugly, poky old den that was next door.
5 Says they 're wofully old-fashioned and poky , - look like Canadians and poor folks.
1 They remain in the slammer , pending the result of their bail application.
2 Windows sysadmins can no doubt well remember malware outbreaks like slammer , sasser.
3 The nickname was a carryover from Cat's first day in the slammer .
4 Had she planned on letting their kids visit Grandpa in the slammer ?
5 Any violations of those conditions and he's facing 20 years in the slammer .
1 Reality: Your accommodation is too pokey to accommodate even a small, portable braai.
2 Yes, a few mostly in pokey places, yet they are useful.
3 There's a distinctly hokey pokey look to this photograph from 1988.
4 A kiwi, a silver fern, a scoop of hokey pokey ice-cream, Lion Brown.
5 How could you have lived in that pokey place so long?
Make or emit a high sound.
1 The clinks of bits and stirrup-irons came down in a waft again.
2 Walter crosses the room, and a bottle cap clinks to the floor.
3 And with that, we hear the undeniable clinks of a toast.
4 Every step clinks or craunches in the farrier's yard, you know.
5 Again he clinks his metal castanet, and leads us leisurely away.
6 In the next room, the carriage clock clinks , marking the turning of an hour.
7 The dull metallic clinks sounded as if they could be heard a mile away.
8 The clinks and taps grew faint, fainter, but never ceased.
9 When Matt leaves us, she lifts her wineglass and clinks it against my pint.
10 A few clinks later the door swung wide open.
11 We start to move forward and something clinks to my right, a shovel banging on stone.
12 Presently she disappeared in the darkness and then the swift little clinks of her spurs ceased.
13 Tiny hammers pattered on miniature anvils in a tinkling, jingling chorus of musical clinks and taps.
14 Notice the quick reset to zero, notice it clinks up and he adjust the counter weight.
15 That's all you're getting. He puts his cup down and it clinks heavily against the saucer.
16 The cutlery clinks and scrapes on the plates.
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Indicative · Present · Third