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[ UK /pɹˈɪzənɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹɪzənɝ, ˈpɹɪznɝ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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.
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