Synonym: hold captive, imprison, incarcerate, lock up. Similar words: nail, sail, mail, rail, trail, retail, fail to, detail. Meaning: [dʒeɪl] 
n. a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence). v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail.
n. a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence). v. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail. 
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91. Instead of ending up in jail or in the gutter he was remarkably successful.
92. Criminals are given the option of going to jail or facing public humiliation.
93. The 200-year-old jail is overcrowded, understaffed and lacking in basic amenities.
94. Strenuous efforts had been made to improve conditions in the jail.
95. He picked a fight with a waiter and landed in jail.
96. A furious row broke out last night after it was revealed that hundreds of prisoners had been released early from jail.
97. Reports are now coming in of trouble at yet another jail.
98. Ruben Carter was left to rot in jail for most of his life.
99. He was relieved his time in jail was over and regarded it as water under the bridge.
100. The police intercepted the flight of the escaped criminal and put him back in jail.
101. One prisoner was still holding out on the roof of the jail.
102. A dozen inmates have absconded from Forest Jail in the past year.
103. The demonstration outside the embassy landed some of the protesters in jail overnight.
104. He was in no sense a political prisoner, but a gangster and racketeer who rightly did six years in jail.
105. He got a six-year jail sentence, a harsh punishment for a first offense.
106. She confessed her astonishment at her light sentence when her father visited her at the jail.
107. He has been in jail several times, but recently he seems to have turned over a new leaf.
108. Under Greece's stiff anti-drugs laws they could face twenty years in jail.
109. He was banged up in a Nepal jail for six months.
110. When do the children finish school? When you are talking about a particular building, the is used:I'll meet you outside the school. Prison, jail, court, and church work in the same way:Her husband spent three years in prison.
111. He was in and out of jail for most of his life.
112. You could face up to eight years in jail for spreading rumours considered prejudicial to security.
112. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find excellent sentences for a large number of words.
113. He has been languishing in jail for the past twenty years.
114. Through no fault of his own, he spent a week locked up in jail.
115. High Point prison had the highest number of breakouts of any jail in Britain.
116. The colonel was able to orchestrate a rebellion from inside an army jail.
117. He says his time in jail was hell on earth .
118. If you don't learn how to keep your nose clean, you're going to end up in jail.
119. He was threatened with jail if evidence of a hoax was discovered.
120. He finally won his freedom after twenty years in jail.