jail
IPA: dʒˈeɪɫ
noun
- A place or institution for the confinement of persons held against their will in lawful custody or detention, especially (in US usage) a place where people are held for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
- (uncountable) Confinement in a jail.
- (horse racing, uncountable) The condition created by the requirement that a horse claimed in a claiming race not be run at another track for some period of time (usually 30 days).
- In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.
- (computing, FreeBSD, usually uncountable) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.
verb
- To imprison.
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Examples of "jail" in Sentences
- The bibulous man went into jail.
- The two spent the night in jail.
- The officer was jailed for the offence.
- The rabble was arrested and sent to the jail.
- All rebels were arrested and sent to the jail.
- At the time this was the safest jail in the state.
- It is the massacre of unarmed and helpless prisoners in jails.
- Whether or not I end up in jail is not the most pressing issue.
- Scott Norberg, (google his name) who died in jail, is an example.
- In some places, the Undersheriff is the prison warden of the county jail.
- The jail was run by Amazons, who were impregnating the prisoners and selling their babies.
- Police want a judge to jail a local vagrant for his inability to avoid police contact and remain arrest free.
- So putting two people in jail is a human rights violation, but her husband's actions, who caused about 100,000+ deaths, in Iraq is not?
- The AG that should be in jail is the current AG and the POTUS for war crimes and crimes against humanity and trampling the Constitution.
- Nicole True, Mr. Jimenez Ruano 's lawyer, said, "People forget that the way someone ends up in jail is based on a human being making a decision."
- I speak from personal experience when I say that all most of them are concerned about when they are put in jail is getting out and getting on with THEIR lives.
- Assuming all judicial systems around the world are basically right and that everyone in jail is supposed to be there, the United States of America (home of the brave and land of the free) is by far the most criminally-infested country in the world, followed only by Russia.
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