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.
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151. My father spent his first Christmas after liberation in jail because the Communists had marked him as uncooperative.
152. Meanwhile, Yoon sits in a Seoul jail awaiting his verdict.
153. The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.
154. Chin spent the night locked in a jail cell with a condemned man.
155. He knew Chico Mendes, leader of the rubber-tappers and social activist, whose murderers have recently been released from jail.
156. And people living at Simonds Yat in Gloucestershire want to know why Hanger was allowed out of the jail to go camping.
157. He had not been accused of a crime, yet Curtis Brown spent 10 of his last days in a jail cell.
158. But his lifestyle has lead to court appearances on drug and driving offences and he's served two jail sentences.
159. Besides the jail sentence Mr Hayton now faces and eight year driving ban increased from four years.
160. Before the night was up, I would find out, when we were taken to jail and put behind bars.
161. The drug bosses were using bribery to stay out of jail.
162. He risks being charged with an offence that carries up to five years in jail.
163. He was being held on arson charges at Santa Rita Jail.
164. Jamie Blandford broke his silence after two jail terms and an estranged marriage, to appear on breakfast television.
165. In Central News tonight: A sickening case - Woman faces jail for animal cruelty.
166. Young men are often brutalized by their experiences in jail.
167. In 1914 Watson left National Cash Register under a cloud of monopoly and competitive charges that might have put him in jail.
168. Bubbly feeling:THE Marquess of Blandford, freed from jail after a judge admitted a mistake, toasted his liberty with champagne.
169. A City of London County Court judge rejected the jail application on a legal technicality.
170. Yet another was convicted for demanding a 5 % pay-off on all bail bonds paid at the jail.
171. Woods was released from jail after the real murderers confessed.
172. But in the context of the jail, republicans considered them symbolic and provocative and, therefore, they could create trouble. Sentencedict.com
173. When the suit collapsed Aitken was charged with perjury, for which he served a seven-month jail term.
174. They were taken to San Mateo County Jail, where bail was set at $ 250, 000 for each.
175. More than 30 of those arrested were released from jail for lack of evidence, but the rest remain behind bars.
176. After a travesty of a trial, Conde was given a five-year jail sentence for an alleged breach of national security.
177. Boylston found Sherrod in contempt and sentenced him to 179 days in jail, but then transferred the sentence to Holley.
178. Mrs Mandela and Mrs Falati were given jail sentences last year but were released on bail pending an appeal.
179. But the magistrates chairman said the offence was so serious, they may have to send both men to jail.
180. Defence counsel William Carter said Gould had been campaigning against drug abuse within the jail.