Example sentences for: penitentiary

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

  • The coda is Nose twirly . And Mr. Lederer will be happy to learn of a student of mine who defined sanguine as `an American penitentiary' and of another who wrote of the peddle of a rose.

  • 4 km) of treacherous, ice-cold water, haunted by sharks and dangerous currents, it was the ideal location for America’s most notorious federal penitentiary.

  • Only the wretched Orchard wound up getting convicted, and (following the commutation of his death sentence) he spent the rest of his life in an Idaho penitentiary.

  • At yesterday's ceremony honoring the Teacher of the Year, Bill Clinton recalled that his sixth-grade teacher once told him, "If you don't learn the difference, I'm not sure whether you're going to be governor or wind up in the penitentiary."

  • Timothy McVeigh, convicted Oklahoma City bomber and Ramzi Yousef, convicted World Trade Center bomber, are both inmates at a Florence, Colorado super-maximum security federal penitentiary.


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