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jail English

Meaning jail meaning

What does jail mean?
Definitions in simple English

jail Noun

— A place where people who have done a crime or a suspected of having done a crime are kept.

jail Verb

— To put someone in jail.

jail

— noun 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) — verb (= imprison, incarcerate, gaol) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail The suspects were imprisoned without trial the murderer was incarcerated for the rest of his life

Synonyms jail synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as jail?

jail English » English

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Topics jail topics

What do people use jail to talk about?
Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison
Work and occupation Working with buildings

Building

Conjugation jail conjugation

How do you conjugate jail?

jail · verb

Examples jail examples

How do I use jail in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I don't want Tom to go to jail.
Not all criminals should go to jail.
Tom told me Mary is in jail.
Tom spent three months in jail.
Sami should die in jail.
He didn't mend his ways and ended back in jail.
Why is Tom in jail?
By the time you get out of jail, she'll probably have gotten married.
In the end, he landed in jail.
The notorious rebel was ultimately captured and confined to jail.
The rebel was ultimately captured and confined to jail.
Eventually the cruel man was sentenced to jail.
In the U.S., there are more prisoners than there is jail space for them. So the prisons are overcrowded.
Ten prisoners broke out of jail.
The police threatened to send her to jail.
The judge sentenced him to a jail term of five years.
Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
He was sentenced to three years in jail.
The two men were released from jail.
He was put in jail for writing the book.
He was sent to jail for the robbery.
He ended up in jail.
He was sent to jail for murder.
He says he's innocent, but they put him in jail.
We'll soon be able to send you to jail.

Movie subtitles

These girls need to be in jail and eat bean rice to wake them up.
If you don't put her in jail, I'll going to bring my lawyer!
Even if I kill such a punk like you, I won't be locked in a jail.
How can a guy in a jail cell get out?
We have evidence, a confession, and the bad guy doesn't spend one night in jail?
Oh, yeah, well, uh, the county jail was all out of hall passes that day.
Nice work, Cal. Nice work. Sadly my two stints in jail gave me a one-way ticket.
I can go to jail if I have to.
I am not letting you go to jail.
Then what happens? You go to jail.
Try it again and you go to jail.
And jail time. if we're both found out.
You have spent time in jail, your career is limited as it is.
One hat bears a mark of a hatter in Louvain, the very city in which Juve is in jail in place of Fantomas.
And yet, Maya got a get-out-of-jail-free card.
He's lucky to not go jail himself.
Careful that his big spending doesn't land us in jail.
I've never been in jail.
A boy who should be in jail, handling the bank's cash.
And I sure hopes that man gets a long time in jail, too.
Please don't send me to jail.
It's like being in jail.
I really belong in jail.
Yes, you did have to get some money tonight. but you're going to jail.
I will have you thrown in jail!
Isaac breaking out of jail, trying to kill Stiles. this is the first time you see an Alpha interacting with their beta.
Nice work. Sadly my two stints in jail gave me a one-way ticket.
Believe me, it's no fun being in jail.
Jail is no place for a young fella.
I've even been in jail.
Why, if I'd never been in jail. I'd have no job contacts.
But if we can put him in jail for only a few months we can break up his ring.
Makes possession of one punishable by a six-month jail sentence.
Please don't send me to jail. I have a boy, 5 years old.

News and current affairs

They remained in jail in Riyadh without legal representation until the final verdict.
Recently, the United States achieved the dubious honor of boasting the largest prison and jail population on earth.
Approximately two million Americans are now serving either prison or jail time, over one million of them for non-violent offenses (a preponderance of these either for drug use or low-level drug sales).
Twenty-seven of the Institute's staff members also received jail sentences, and the Institute is now practically destroyed.
That Mr. Khodorkovsky is spending months in jail before he is formally charged tells us much about the nature of business, politics, and law in the nations of the former Soviet Union.
Shi remains in jail to this day.
Shi Tao, in his jail cell, was undoubtedly pleased to learn that China is ruled by law, not by the Communist Party.
Here, at long last, was Poland's long-awaited popular uprising, revenge for December 1980, when Jaruzelski declared martial law, banned Solidarity, and threw its leaders in jail.
By releasing Annadurdy Hadjiev from jail and withdrawing the threat of extradition to Turkmenistan, Bulgaria would unequivocally demonstrate its commitment to fulfilling its obligations.
Chinese critics of the government, or even those who simply wish to report mistakes or wrongdoing, are silenced with a heavy hand: beatings in police stations, draconian jail sentences, or even murder.
The children of drug users often become drug users themselves; they, too, frequently end up in jail or suffer violence or early death.
The prosecutors have shown little interest in these discrepancies, doing their best to send the alleged conspirators to jail (and keep them there) even before the trial starts.
But although Russians dislike the powerful, and cherish underdogs and martyrs, a man in jail no longer looks strong.
And, if the Israelis are convinced that Abbas is too weak to do anything, they can help the Palestinians by releasing the Fatah strongman, Marwan Barghouti, from an Israeli jail.
In the United States, one-eighth of all black males between the ages of 25 and 34 are in jail, and three out of five black American households with children are headed by a single mother.
Saudi rulers have announced that demonstrations are haram - a sin punishable by jail and flogging.
Last October, the CPJ reported that there were 76 journalists imprisoned in Turkey, including 61 who were in jail for their journalistic work.
More than 2,100 political prisoners remain in jail in Burma.
Some have gone to jail to protect the identities of anonymous sources and whistleblowers, or have sued governments that deny them access to crucial documents.
When carrying his petition to Beijing, escorted by a tiny group of lawyers, Chen was accused of disrupting traffic on the city's clogged roads and condemned to four years in jail.
Two days before the vote, our poll watchers and supporters were searched, arrested, and given one-day trials, with most sentenced to one or two months in jail.

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