Words similar to penitentiary

Example sentences for: penitentiary

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

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.
The dictator Machado built this copy of an American penitentiary in 1931.
La Pinta, referring to prison, is believed to come from the word penitenciaria, or “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."
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.