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Meanings of jail for in English

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Usage of jail for in English
1
She ought to be put in jail for exceeding the speed limit.
Grace Harlowe's Junior Year at High School / Or, Fast Friends in...
2
Two years later he was sentenced to six years jail for fraud.
Radio NZ
3
The prisoners were taken to the New Orleans jail for safe keeping.
Imperium in Imperio: A Study of the Negro Race Problem. A Novel
4
Another complained that his mother-in-law had put him in jail for bigamy.
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
5
Your parents may be in jail for all anybody knows, returned Cora.
A Little Miss Nobody; Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall
6
They thought it was I, and he went to jail for me.
The Seventh Noon
7
And as a result, he has languished in jail for eight months?
New york: the novel
8
It would certainly land him in the local jail for a spell.
Wild Storm
9
And a grandmother who served food in county jail for 25 years.
The new yorker
10
You know they sent him to jail for twenty years or so.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
11
The man was sentenced to jail for 17 years and four months.
Radio NZ
12
I'll have you in jail for this, by God-andyou too, Gregory.
The Silent Bullet
13
Well, Garrison was tried, and must go to jail for a year.
A Romany of the Snows, Complete / Being a Continuation of the Pe...
14
I have gone to jail for you rather than breach that confidence.
By reason of insanity
15
I'd simply wind up in jail for trying to shove funny money.
The Door Into Summer
16
If the young idealist wrote it, he goes to jail for forgery.
A Confederacy of Dunces
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Jail for through the time
Jail for across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common