Word Finder - jail

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A place or institution for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody or detention, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.

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Confinement in a jail.

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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).

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In dodgeball and related games, the area where players who have been struck by the ball are confined.

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(FreeBSD) A kind of sandbox for running a guest operating system instance.

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To imprison.

The point is that he went to jail for it.

He was still in jail.

You said he's out of jail.

He's still in jail?

He served eight months in jail.

The collection includes Oscar Wilde's Reading Jail cell door and, from Wandsworth Prison, the last gallows to be used in England.

Is he still in jail?

We lost his mother to cancer at an early age and his father is in jail, convicted of fraud.

He even managed to spend a night in jail.

He was killed by a mob in a jail at Carthage, Illinois, on the 27th of June 1844.

He desired to be known as a protector of letters and literary men; and his want of heart or head over the Dictionary dedication, though explained and excused by Croker, none the less inspired the famous change in a famous line - " Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

He's probably looking for help to keep from going back to jail.

And if everyone who hit their spouse landed in jail, we might be rather shocked at the percentage.

The Five Hindrances are (1) Hankering after worldly advantages, (2) The corruption arising out of the wish to injure, (3) Torpor of mind, (4) Fretfulness and worry, (5) Wavering of mind.'" When these five hindrances have been cut away from within him, he looks upon himself as freed from debt, rid of disease, out of jail, a free man and secure.

When he stepped inside the ancient building, he was surprised to see Fred was engaged in a robust game of pinochle with the jail matron in the outside office.

Stealing supplies will remain an offense which could result in a jail sentence.

It's not one of the ones we've caught; they're in jail, for the most part.

Her mother's been in jail half of Martha's life while the poor kid's been shuffled around God knows where.

It was a shock for David Dean to see Fred O'Connor sitting on a wooden stool behind bars at the Ouray County jail.

Vinnie, the only place anyone knows you is in jail.

Dean prayed it wouldn't land them both in jail.

Of the old fort erected by Islam Khan, who in 1608 was appointed nawab of Bengal, and removed his capital from Rajmahal to Dacca, no vestige remains; but the jail is built on a portion of its site.

In Albion are the Western House of Refuge for Women (a state institution established in 1890), a public park, the Swan Library, and the county buildings, including the court house, the jail and the surrogate's office; and about 2 m.

The case was not brought to trial until August 1735, and in the meantime Zenger was kept in jail.

The Senate occupies a plain unattractive building on the west side of the Praga da Republica, and the Chamber of Deputies an ugly colonial building in Rua da Misericordia, originally used as a city hall and jail.

Ten prisoners, convicted of destroying the property of the mine-owners, were sentenced to twenty-two months in jail.

He was sent to jail, but only for the rape they could prove.

His pedophile brother Jude hanged himself in his jail cell over the weekend.

All this business with her got me thinking about them years— courts and jail and stuff like that.

When Fred gets out of jail, we'll have to send him back to his old newspapers—begin all over again.

Fred, rejuvenated, popped up to check his e-mails as soon as he felt he'd drained the well of intelligence the Deans had been holding back during his jury and jail departures.

Anyone caught performing abortions faced up to 15 years in jail.

He received a three and a half year jail term for violent affray.

It's also alleged that there are more young black men in jail at any given time than there are in higher education.

In 1897, at Berneval, Oscar Wilde wrote The ballad of Reading Jail.

Ms Franklin, a stunning brunette, is serving four years for drugs offenses in a Texas jail.

Tolbooth - The most important secular building; meeting place of burgh council; collection post for burgh council; collection post for burgh tolls; often housed town jail.

He had remained in solitary confinement in jail for a year.

A new European Directive seeks to enforce intellectual property rights with retailers facing jail for knowingly selling counterfeit or copied goods.

The Government has already clarified that people currently serving the sentence of intermittent custody can vote when not actually in jail.

He was taken away to Durham Jail pending deportation.

Daley was hanged by the infamous English hangman, William Marwood on a scaffold erected at the North end of the jail.

Under-age sex youth spared jail A teenager who had sex with an 11-year-old girl has been put on probation for three years.

Racist attacker after September 11 escapes 01-05-2002 A MAN who went on a racist wrecking spree just days after September 11 has escaped jail.

In his country workers face jail for being a member of a union!

It is anticipated they are likely to spend two years in a Texan jail, awaiting trial.

Pakistan on its part denies their presence in any Pakistani jail.

One Kurdish girl had been tortured before in a Turkish jail.

Those found guilty of harassment now face a maximum five-year jail sentence.

Growing up, Curtis was in and out of jail and unable to finish school, yet did manage to earn his GED.