NOUN
- a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement
- a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment
How To Use prison house In A Sentence
- But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
- As an 1825 poem has it: "Fearing the winters/ Endless and icy/ Nobody will visit/ This wretched country/ This vast prison house for exiles.
- A quarter of a mile in either direction, looking out along the shallow canyon of the sand-hills, Dag Daughtry could see the sentry-boxes of the guards, themselves armed and more prone to kill than to lay hands on any escaping pest-man, much less persuavively discuss with him the advisability of his return to the prison house. CHAPTER XXI
- This prison houses the most dangerous criminals in Britain, those classed as "category A'.
- The object has a certain objectivity about it (a certain whereness, though we do not wish to restrict this ubiety to the prison house of the page).
- Vladimir Lenin, who made the rise of Stalin possible, had called czarist Russia a “prison house of nations,” but the Soviet Union far outdid its predecessor in that regard. The Great Experiment
- Race and gender ceased to be prison houses and became optional identities. The Times Literary Supplement
- At Tobermory, on the west of Scotland, a little handful of men have a strong faith that a sunken galleon from the Spanish Armada is the prison house of great treasure, and their faith is productive of an energy which makes zealous quest. Things That Matter Most: Devotional Papers