Example sentences for: jailed

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

  • Controversy 2: Did she get off lightly because she's a woman, whereas men are jailed longer for similar crimes?

  • The New York Times leads with a groundbreaking collaboration between the U.S. and Mexico in the investigation of the drug trade: a jailed former head of the Mexican national police was recently brought secretly to the U.S. (Houston), where he testified about drug payoffs at high levels of the Mexican government.

  • The WP calls the Korean vote the most remarkable in the country's history, pointing out that upon his inauguration, Kim, 73, will take over a government that kidnapped and jailed him and repeatedly tried to kill him, once by planning to toss him off a ship at sea.

  • Opera chiefs should be jailed, says MP

  • Look at how deadbeat dads are jailed, how drug- using small-fry get put away for decades, how the 30% of Americans who continue to smoke are gradually being made liable for the entire federal budget.


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