Example sentences for: jailed

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

  • Religious doctrine was dense and difficult and if you misunderstood it, you could be excommunicated or 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.

  • As a result, says the WP , President Clinton deliberately avoided mentioning Wei by name during his joint press conference with Jiang when the issue of jailed dissidents came up.

  • Bragg, a writerish reporter who would be at home in Style, earned in the June 9 Times . The jailed sheriff spent 27 months behind bars, not 27 years, as Bragg originally reported.

  • 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.


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