How to use "prisoner" in a sentence
Sentences
I stood in front of the window like a small boy at the zoo, and, believe me, I didn't feel at all like Captain Nemo's prisoner.
He was a prisoner I saw twenty years ago, when I worked at a prison in Toulon
The prisoner did not move
Then he turned to the prisoner and said in a slow, threatening voice, 'What did you hope to gain by giving me a false name and address?'
'Time!' cried the prisoner in a loud voice, jumping from the bed, having secretly cut the ropes that tied him
Marius stared, frozen with fear as Thenardier, knife in hand, stood hesitating a few steps away from the prisoner
Thenardier was advancing towards his prisoner, knife in hand, when his wife cried, 'Something fell!'
When everybody had been arrested and taken from the room, Javert noticed the prisoner, who was standing, head bowed, by the window
He turned to speak to another policeman but, when he looked back, he saw that the prisoner had gone
'They've taken me prisoner,' he thought, moments before losing consciousness
Marius had indeed been taken prisoner, but not by the soldiers
You're the prisoner, the one that escaped from Mountjoy prison
I won't let you question me like a prisoner every time I am a little late.'
I walked up to Percival and said, 'You can't keep your wife as a prisoner in her own house! There are laws in England to protect women from cruelty and injustice!'