Example sentences for: parole

How can you use “parole” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Dukakis hadn't started the state program that allowed prisoners like Horton, who were serving life sentences without parole, to take furloughs--that would have been Dukakis' Republican predecessor as governor of Massachusetts, Francis Sargent.

  • Newsweek 's scoops: 1) Ted Kaczynski's lawyers have talked to the Justice Department about avoiding the death penalty; and 2) if Kaczynski wants to get life without parole, he must cede any right to appeal the sentence.

  • The life sentence without the possibility of parole handed to Oklahoma bombing figure Terry Nichols draws front-page coverage at the New York Times , Washington Post and Los Angeles Times , but USA Today puts it on page 3. Nichols was expected to be put away for keeps unless he spoke to the court in a particularly informative or remorseful way, but he made no statement.

  • Obligingly, the author of the article, Robert Pear, did not find it necessary to remind readers that the former chairman is on parole after a stretch in prison.

  • As Horn argues, in most cases there is relatively little that parole agents can do to keep an offender who is determined to commit new crimes from committing them.


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