Example sentences for: jailed

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

  • Hundreds were jailed, and scores of dissidents fled abroad.

  • B. Mayor Giuliani also detests an article in a student magazine: He had two young writers jailed.

  • There's other news today: The NYT reports that the Communists are threatening Boris Yeltsin with impeachment if he renominates Viktor Chernomyrdin to be his prime minister (a story first broached earlier in the week by the LAT ); the WP and NYT report that government security guards in Beijing brutally hauled away the wife of a jailed dissident to keep her from delivering a letter of protest to the visiting U.N. commissioner on human rights.

  • But in subsequent conversations, Lana claimed that she didn't find out until Brandon was jailed or until John and Tom had taken his pants down or until he'd been raped.

  • But in a televised speech, he said he would release all political prisoners jailed by the previous military regime, allow the formation of political parties, reform the prison system and put an end to "lapses" in the management of public funds.


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