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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Examples for "laggard "
Examples for "laggard "
1 The retail sector was the laggard of the Irish economy in 2013.
2 It has, however, been laggard in the scientific recording of its flora.
3 The host was no laggard in waiting on two such important guests.
4 He was not a laggard , this Julius Corbett, in anything he undertook.
5 When it comes to innovation, sometimes it helps to be a laggard .
1 He reminds the dilatory , and admonishes the forgetful, always in friendly fashion.
2 Even up here in our dilatory Dutchess County the breeze smells green.
3 He was purposely dilatory , and was often the last one to finish.
4 He must, however, not be too hastily blamed for his dilatory improvement.
5 He is the soul of honour; though so deucedly dilatory in money matters.
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?
Small and remote and insignificant.
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.
6 Do you think J. W. will find it too poky and preachy?
7 The day dragged on; the flies simply swarmed in my poky little room.
8 She does not realise the poky restrictions of the new life.
9 Fancy sitting in that poky little carriage with both windows shut.
10 Beside these things the average church services to-day are both stupid and poky .
11 He seemed to be in some sort of poky office, probably the captain's.
12 There's time enough yet for him to learn his letters and get poky .
13 How small and poky and drab the home drawing-room would appear in comparison!
14 Such a funny, sporty, gamy, jesty, joky, hoky - poky lad, is the Ocean, oh!
15 Though such a poky little 'en-coop of a place I never was in!
16 And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman!
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