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Example sentences for: penitentiary

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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."
The dictator Machado built this copy of an American penitentiary in 1931.
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.
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 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.