Example sentences for: convicts

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

  • For, not only are convicts or screws prison officers the only people to use them, they are likely to be the only people to know them.

  • National Park Rangers offer informative and witty self-guided audio tours around the former home of Al Capone as well as other convicts such as Robert Stroud, the famous “Birdman of Alcatraz.”

  • Over the past three months, the committee brags, it has hanged four accused murderers, banished 30 criminals and troublemakers from the region and run untold numbers of "Sydney Ducks"--as convicts from Australia are known--out of town.

  • "The Laogai Archipelago" describes China's massive, awful penal system, which imprisons between 6 million and 8 million people and favors such barbarous practices as slave labor, torture, and organ-harvesting from executed convicts.

  • The ignorance surrounding the Tasmanian languages betrays the fact that the relationships between convicts and later settlers and the Tasmanian Aborigines were of a hostility unreached elsewhere; the continuing fertility of Nyungar by contrast results from a much happier and more accommodating relationship.


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