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UK
/pɹˈɪzənɐ/
]
[ US /ˈpɹɪzənɝ, ˈpɹɪznɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪzənɝ, ˈpɹɪznɝ/ ]
NOUN
- a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
How To Use prisoner In A Sentence
- She distinguished the undrawing of iron bars, and then the countenance of Spalatro at her door, before she had a clear remembrance of her situation — that she was a prisoner in a house on a lonely shore, and that this man was her jailor. The Italian
- And if you ever attempt to go forth again to find out new wonders in the world, I shall clasp you round with my arms, as I do now, and keep you prisoner against your will; and if you say 'Farewell' a hundred times to me, I shall blot out that sad word every time with my lips, and put a better one in its place, until my word conquers yours. A Crystal Age
- The iron hooks that prisoners were chained to are still visible on the walls.
- The work is done by prisoners at a unique computor workshop inside Gloucester jail, visited this afternoon by Princess Anne.
- Members of the 800th Military Police Brigade had to use lethal force several times to quell prisoner uprisings, the report says.
- The last prisoner in the coffle was the tailor, a gray-haired, elderly man with a wrinkled face. The Magic of Krynn
- Without a wheelchair, she is a virtual prisoner in her own home.
- Sick prisoners in the camp were 'cared for', in inverted commas, by guards, not nurses.
- The prisoner was brought to court for trial.
- A Republican assemblyman supported the bill, citing that half of California prisoners smoke and the development will cut health care costs.