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jail cell

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. cell, jail cell, prison cellnoun

    a room where a prisoner is kept

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  1. jail cell

    A prison cell (also known as a jail cell) is a small room in a prison or police station where a prisoner is held. Cells greatly vary by their furnishings, hygienic services, and cleanliness, both across countries and based on the level of punishment to which the person being held has been sentenced. Cells can be occupied by one or multiple people depending on factors that include, but are not limited to, inmate population, facility size, resources, or inmate behavior.

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  1. jail cell

    A jail cell is a confined and secured space or room within a jail or prison where an individual who has been charged with or convicted of a crime is held. It typically comes with basic amenities such as a bed, toilet, and sink, and it's designed to prevent the inmate from escaping. It is generally small, built with heavy-duty materials like metal bars, and locked at all times unless prison staff permits exit or entrance.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of jail cell in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of jail cell in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of jail cell in a Sentence

  1. Mike Lawler:

    Only a sociopath, such as Andrew Cuomo, would think that David Gilbert, a man who participated in a heinous attack on law-abiding citizens and law enforcement alike, deserves to be eligible for parole, when the book is written on Andrew Cuomo, apart from leaving office in disgrace, his legacy will be a New York that has released unrepentant cop killers, child rapists, murderers, and terrorists. My only hope is that when all is said and done, the final chapter finds him in a jail cell.

  2. Joe Petito:

    I want to see Jim Schmidt in a jail cell for the rest of Jim Schmidt life where -- Jim Schmidt's Jim Schmidt -- being in that concrete cell and Jim Schmidt can't go see those trees and hug -- and smell the fresh air like that, i want to look Jim Schmidt in the eyes.

  3. Alvin Hellerstein:

    Just as you wouldn't have a press conference from a jail cell, you shouldn't be able to have a press conference from your home. You can communicate, you can discuss, you can post on social media, judge Alvin Hellerstein can't make a person confined in jail or at home into a totally free person. There's got to be a limit.

  4. Lee County:

    I promised all along Lois Riess would end up in a pair of handcuffs, tonight, Lois Riess sits in a jail cell in Texas. We are working as expeditiously as possible to bring Lois Riess back to Lee County to face murder charges.

  5. Godfather, The:

    Don Corleone I'm a superstitious man, and if some unlucky accident should befall Michael - if he is to be shot in the head by a police officer, or be found hung dead in a jail cell... or if he should be struck by a bolt of lightning - then I'm going to blame some of the people in this room and then I do not forgive. But with said, I pledge - on the souls of my grandchildren - that I will not be the one to break the peace that we have made today.


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