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Example sentences for "jailed"

Lexicographically close words:
jags; jaguar; jaguars; jail; jailbird; jailer; jailers; jailing; jailor; jailors
  1. He had learned, among other things, that if one were to be jailed one might just as well be jailed for cause.

  2. Being arrested and jailed is losing its novelty.

  3. Although she made no outcry of rape, he was jailed and would have been lynched, but the woman stated she bought curtains of him (he was a furniture dealer) and his business in her room that night was to put them up.

  4. He was jailed for six months, discharged, and is now a detective in that city.

  5. And most of the gang of thugs and plug-uglies who had been used to intimidate and control the Hunters' Co-operative had been gathered up and jailed on vagrancy charges; prisoners were being put to work cleaning up the city.

  6. All the drove of loafers and hangers-on had been run out, or maybe jailed and put to work.

  7. I'm to be permanently jailed for using my brains!

  8. The arrest of Captain Mitten and acting engineer Oscar Lindstrom made twenty-one prisoners in all, and these were jailed without any charge being placed against them.

  9. I see how maybe I could get me and Jim rid of the frauds; get them jailed here, and then leave.

  10. You also bungled when you forgot all about burning that bundle, in your excitement over getting Hammond jailed for the murder," he observed, watching Chacherre writhe.

  11. The original Puritan of the bleak New England coast was not content to flay his own wayward carcass: full satisfaction did not sit upon him until he had jailed a Quaker.

  12. Its supreme hero is Comstock Himself, with his pious boast that the sinners he jailed during his astounding career, if gathered into one penitential party, would have filled a train of sixty-one coaches, allowing sixty to the coach.

  13. They were kept jailed several weeks, in expectation of some revelations.

  14. They ought to be jailed for that, if for nothing else.

  15. An' he oughter be jailed for what he done," added the miner, bitterly.

  16. I say it's a conspiracy--and yet they jailed a man for it!

  17. No respecters of persons, they harried the rich and taunted the powerful, and would have as soon jailed a bishop or a judge as a pickpocket if he deserved it.

  18. A week later Debs and his fellow-leaders were jailed for contempt of court, and soon after their following collapsed.

  19. Workers were beaten and jailed by the hundreds.

  20. A great number were jailed for indefinite periods on indefinite charges.

  21. The victims were to be jailed without bond, without reason, without justice, while the mechanism of the court was to be juggled in order to hold them until fall, if necessary.

  22. They robbed a realm and pillaged its people, they defiled a court and made Justice a wanton, they jailed good men and sent others to ruin; and for this they are to suffer--how?

  23. With daylight those two would return and walk unheeding into the trap, while if he bore the word to them first, then the Vigilantes would be jailed before dawn.

  24. They were jailed in droves and fined heavily mostly for minor "offenses.

  25. On a thousand occasions they beat, shot, jailed or trampled steel workers under their horses' hoofs in the manner and under the circumstances best calculated to strike terror to their hearts.

  26. But when they attempted to hold a meeting there Mr. Crawford jailed three of them, J.

  27. And if the latter dared to protest they were lucky not to be beaten up, jailed and fined for disorderly conduct.

  28. The New York State Constabulary and the company guards, of a cut with their odious Pennsylvania brethren, slugged, shot and jailed men and women in real Steel Trust style.

  29. And once they came in they felt the utmost confidence in their leaders, the men they had seen jailed time and again for fighting their battle.

  30. Did he tell you I jailed him for promiscuous shooting?

  31. By the way Big Bill Slewer's loose, the man the Duke ran out of Tycer country and jailed for shooting Ed.

  32. I took the first that came along, and I've been jailed and fined for that once already.

  33. And he'll be jailed for stealin' THIS time, too.

  34. I am really scared for fear he'll get himself jailed for being a traitor or something of that sort.

  35. Been blamed sick and silly, and must ha' lost the job and got jailed again.

  36. In some mining corner, where the radicals control, they jailed all the mine-owners; even shot one, for being a monarchist.

  37. When they reached Adamsville, they found the shack colony sacked, the strikers and their dependents either jailed or scattered.

  38. But do you realise that you came near causing an innocent man to be jailed for the theft?

  39. But if he had found it, I'd have been jailed for theft.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jailed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    barred; beleaguered; beset; bound; cloistered; confined; cramped; enclosed; immured; imprisoned; incarcerated; jailed; penned; quarantined; restrained; walled