prisoner
IPA: prˈɪzʌnɝ
noun
- A person incarcerated in a prison, while on trial or serving a sentence.
- Any person held against their will.
- A person who is or feels confined or trapped by a situation or a set of circumstances.
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Examples of "prisoner" in Sentences
- The minute he says the word prisoner, Jacob jumps to his feet.
- We have what we call a prisoner transport center in Albuquerque.
- Guatemala is a country where the term prisoner was unknown; it has not existed in 50 years.
- Politicians still balk at the term prisoner swap though political sources say it's certainly an option.
- The Libyans were insisting on what they call a prisoner transfer agreement between the two countries, which sounds like, you know, one of these vanilla agreements that two countries reach.
- Heba has been living in a prison for the past three years; sadly enough the prisoner is her very own father who denied her the right to live freely and forced her into adopting his beliefs and his life style.
- In a federal courtroom in Alexandria, Tribby stood Friday before Judge Liam O'Grady wearing a green prison jumpsuit with the word "prisoner" written on the back and swore under oath with French manicured nails before her hearing began.
- Ricks, wearing a green prison jumpsuit with the word "prisoner" written in white on the back and with a close haircut of his salt and pepper hair, stood before U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris as the charges were read aloud during a 30-minute hearing in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
- But, the judge advocate having made the above statement to the court, from which it appeared that the prosecutor, as such, objected to any adjournment, and from the same statement it appearing also to the court, that the commanding general thought an adjournment to the first of December less prejudicial to the service than an adjournment for three months — the eourt did adjourn for the longer period, either for the greater accommodation of the prisoner, or out of respeet to the interests of the service: for neither reason is ex - pressed in the decision — nor does it appear that any objec - tion was made at the thiie by the prisoner*
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