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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Small and remote and insignificant.
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Examples for "one-horse "
Examples for "one-horse "
1 The second cab followed the one-horse coupe in which Muller was seated.
2 Living in a one - horse town is great, if you own the horse.
3 Just another one - horse town where they roll up the sidewalks at nine.
4 On Finchley Common the traveller met a clergyman driving a one-horse chaise.
5 On Monday we packed a one-horse van with what we deemed essential.
1 I wondered why a sexy high-top like you would work this jerkwater !
2 Not Moe or anybody else in this jerkwater town.
3 Somebody had found the damned thing, and now they knew they had me pinned down in this jerkwater town.
4 He'd make more dough if he owned the local garage and dealer franchise for one of the automobile companies in some jerkwater town.
5 Compared to this Vegas was nothing more than its origin: a small jerkwater nothing of a place hunkering at the edge of the desert.
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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