How to use "prison" in a sentence

'She just got out of prison,' he said

Oh, I threw my medal away, OK - but it hit somebody really important! One of the President's men! So they threw me into prison.

As it happened, I didn't stay in prison long, because they soon realized that I was an idiot, and they put me in a special hospital for idiots

You've just been released from prison

'I've been in prison for nineteen years

'I've spent five years in prison for violent robbery, another fourteen years for trying to escape four times

Finally, as evening fell, he sat on the ground, exhausted, and gazed across the fields at the distant mountains, wishing that he was back in prison

'Now I can pay off all my debts and stay out of prison

She was taken to the police station, where Inspector Javert, the chief of police, sent her to prison for six months.

Please don't send me to prison.'

Madeleine was in the police station, trying to save Fantine from prison

The man who had just saved her from prison was also the man who had caused all her troubles

He was a prisoner I saw twenty years ago, when I worked at a prison in Toulon

After being released from prison, this Valjean stole some silver from the Bishop of Digne and robbed a small boy on a public footpath

I visited the man in Arras prison, and I saw for myself that he is indeed Jean Valjean

If he's found guilty of stealing from the bishop - who, as you know, died a couple of years ago - and of robbing the small boy, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.'

Madeleine - as we shall continue to call him for this part of the story - knew that he could not let Champmathieu go to prison for crimes he had not committed

Two days after his arrest, Jean Valjean escaped from prison

'It takes more than a small town prison to hold a man as strong as that,' they all agreed.

He sent money every Monday to Thenardier, who was in prison, which meant that he had even less money for himself

All he had in the world was the five-franc piece he intended to give her father in prison

He had been more interested in catching Thenardier, who had escaped from prison and was known to be in the area.

The only thing they discovered was that Mme Thenardier had died, and that her husband had escaped from prison and disappeared with his surviving daughter, Azelma.

That he was Jean Valjean, a criminal who had spent nineteen years in prison and who had stolen silver candlesticks from a trusting and kind-hearted bishop

'Did you know that he spent nineteen years in prison?'

What? Oh, who cares about her? She'll probably like prison, the crazy cow: more people for her to hurt

He pulls the collar of his stolen coat up to cover his face, and he checks that no one can see the grey prison uniform that he is still wearing beneath it.

It is small, so small, and it reminds him of his prison cell back in The Joy

You're the prisoner, the one that escaped from Mountjoy prison

It's like a prison, Sala thought.

"It's like a prison," Tina said.

Danny called to her again and again, begging her to save him before the roof of his underground prison caved in and buried him alive

Tina prepared Danny for the journey out of his prison

I would not be surprised to learn that one of the network-approved writers is in prison for crimes of a particularly perverse nature committed against small woodland animals - and I know that at least a couple of them are no longer in the business

After a few days in prison, Helene had been moved to a nearby asylum for the criminally insane

'He came out of prison yesterday and is promising to punish me! Why? Because when I, as a magistrate, sent him to prison, I did not consider his wife and children

Because he sent her boyfriend to prison.'

He was probably very angry about being sent to prison but would feel differently when he came out.

'Well, anyway, Colonel Protheroe sent lots of poor fellows to prison just for shooting at a bird

'Colonel Protheroe sent him to prison

As Dr Haydock climbed into the driving seat, he said, 'You won't be able to put him in prison

'All I know is that Mensar-Arthur is in prison

'If the police find out, they'll put you in prison for years!'

Human rights mean that people are not put into prison because they do not agree with the government, and that people are not hurt when they are in prison

She helped many people in prison, and she stopped them from getting hurt by the prison workers

When they were put in prison, they did not eat

Emmeline, like many of the suffragettes, was put in prison many times

From 1908 to 1909, she was in prison three times

From 1912 to 1913, she was in prison twelve times

In the 1980s, she spent a lot of time in prison because of her work

In 2018, a very famous man in American TV, Bill Cosby, was convicted of sexual assault and was sent to prison for three to ten years.

He smiles and says, "I want to see the Pulido family in prison!"

"I want to see you in prison!" says a man's voice

We must put them in prison and kill them! They are dangerous."

They take them to prison

He asks him, "Why is the Pulido family in prison?"

They must escape from prison

We must be silent, enter the prison and help them