Example sentences for: inmate

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

  • For instance, there's a legitimate question to be raised about what you do about someone who's already serving life without parole who kills an inmate or guard; how to deter a murderer who shoots the cop trying to arrest him, figuring he has nothing to lose; and other such situations.

  • According to the inspector, the state's concern wasn't the condemned: The guards were worried that if the chair broke apart during an electrocution, the thick, black, high-voltage wires screwed to the inmate might rip loose and electrocute everybody in the room.

  • One inmate was released after Perez admitted that he and his partner shot the man and then planted a gun on him so they could claim self-defense.

  • According to this inmate, Abdullah also claimed to have found out about the 9/11 attacks three weeks in advance, a claim that appears to dovetail with evidence that Abdullah may have received a phone call from Hazmi around that time, that he stopped making calls from his telephone after August 25, 2001, and that, according to his friends, he started acting strangely.

  • The story also has the most details from the trial evidence, such as running quotes from Markhasev's jailhouse letters to another inmate, in which he says that he went to kill a drug dealer who wasn't home and then came upon Ennis Cosby fixing a flat tire, and details about how the informant who turned Markhasev in to get a $100,000 National Enquirer reward testified that the defendant told him he'd killed Cosby.


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