borstal
IPA: bˈɔrstʌɫ
noun
- (UK) A way up a hill in the South Downs.
- (historical) Any of the prisons set up in Britain for delinquent boys from 1895 to 1983.
- (Britain, Ireland) Any institution which provides education to young offenders.
- A suburb, formerly a village, in Rochester, Medway borough, Kent, England (OS grid ref TQ7366).
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Examples of "borstal" in Sentences
- Serge is then sent to a borstal.
- Borstal can be seen on the far bank.
- A supernatural story set in a borstal.
- Only loose change is permitted in the borstal.
- I had to look up "borstal" -- I learned a new word.
- At the age of 13 Conway was sent to borstal for theft.
- It acts more like a housemaster in a progressive borstal.
- She is also shown to be one of the kinder people in the borstal.
- I was in the borstal system as a youngster – breaking and entry.
- Bullwood Hall was built in the 1960s originally as a female borstal.
- Black was eventually sentenced to a year of borstal training at Polmont.
- The response of the Borstal authorities to Colin's action is heavy handed.
- When he was in borstal, she would travel miles, without a car, to see him.
- The youth prison at Borstal gave its name to the Borstal reform school system.
- We always had bad lads, and a few bad girls, we used to put them in borstal for a short sharp shock.
- And the streets, perhaps inevitably, led to petty, and then not-so-petty crime, borstal and then jail.
- The alliterative reference to “borstal”, a home for youthful criminal offenders in England, undercuts your credibility.
- This format sees a brave/mad teacher volunteering to live with their most difficult pupil for a week in a bid to save them from borstal.
- For someone who spent his teens in borstal, and a couple of weeks in the 1980s in Pentonville prison for smashing up a bar in Soho, Allen is now an abstemious sort of hellraiser.
- At the centre is the 17-year-old apprentice welder Del, who disrupts the monotony of life with petty theft and fighting and hero-worships the eponymous borstal fugitive (Sam Shepherd).
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