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:

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.
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.
La Pinta, referring to prison, is believed to come from the word penitenciaria, or “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.
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."