Example sentences for: prison

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

  • Brady's first published work was an 1846 collaboration, with the female warden of Sing Sing, on a phrenological study of prison inmates--the sort of analysis of "criminal physiognomy" that later influenced painters like Degas and the poet Baudelaire.

  • The Los Angeles Times leads with another in its series of important stories about the abuse of inmates in the California state prison system--this one reporting an investigative panel's conclusion that two dozen fatal or serious inmate shootings at the state's most notorious prison were not justified.

  • On the opposite side of the road a lane leads to the site of the prison where thousands of people were tortured and executed between 1933 and 1945, including many of the officers involved in the Stauffenberg plot.

  • Unemployed, homeless and with a prison record, Jerry now faced going back to prison for failure to pay child support.

  • Eight letter bombs disguised as Christmas cards and postmarked from Alexandria, Egypt, were mailed to the Washington, D.C., bureau of an Arab newspaper ( Al Hayat ) and to Leavenworth prison.


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