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Example sentences for: prisoner

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

John McCain's five years as a prisoner of war positioned him to run for president as the candidate of "character."
The foreman of the jury, asked if they had agreed upon their verdict replied, We have well considered the evidence, and, although we think grave suspicion is attached to the prisoner, we do not think there is sufficient evidence to show how or by whom the chloroform was administered.
The risk of alienating a voting base is real, but the risk of looking like a prisoner to the ultras is greater.
This shocking act recalls the climax of Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1969), in which a prisoner is executed with similar defiance, and Russell builds to the same wordless exchange among the protagonists: Those manly looks that say, "We're outnumbered and outgunned.
· The terrorists took him prisoner.