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• The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.From the entry mutter
• He forfeited his last chance of an early release from jail by repeatedly attacking another inmate.From the entry forfeit
• The guard hefted his cudgel menacingly and looked at the inmates.From the entry cudgel
• I’ve seen your kicks, inmate: you’ve got forty cents to your name.From the entry kicks
• Your deception won't work: no inmate has slipped one past Officer Smith in years.From the entry slip one past
• The prison issued new uniforms for the inmates.From the entry issue
• Many of them don't know it, but almost a third of the inmates are eligible to apply for parole or work-release programs.From the entry apply
• Frank was proud of the fact that in all his years as a corrections officer, he had never been assaulted by an inmate.From the entry corrections officer
• In recent years, pen pal correspondence with prison inmates has gained acceptance on the Internet.2019, Manjit Bal, Lovingly Yours - Penpals. From the entry cram
• Like thieves, square johns are a shrinking proportion of the American inmate population.2017, David Musick, Kristine Gunsaulus-Musick, American Prisons: Their Past, Present and Future, page 27. From the entry square john
• Surveillance by other inmates creates yet another dimension of power and control.2016, April Kalogeropoulos Householder, Adrienne Trier-Bieniek, Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black, page 85. From the entry lesbian
• He will not tell the "recruity", the street Arab, or the Elmira inmate how he is managed.2016, Jon Frauley, C. Wright Mills and the Criminological Imagination, page 166. From the entry recruity
• Inmates had simply to surrender in fear of a future of simply waiting for death.2014, Anthony Elliott, Masataka Katagiri, Atsushi Sawai, Routledge Companion to Contemporary Japanese Social Theory: From…. From the entry kawaii
• What I tell these misinformed inmates is that you cannot put the same shoe on every foot.2012, Jayson Williams, Humbled Letters from Prison, →ISBN, page 230. From the entry you cannot put the same shoe on every foot
• However, no inmate shall spend more than 30 consecutive days in DC.2010 June 16, Correctional Institution Inspection Committee (Ohio), Inspection and Evaluation of the Trumbull Correctional Institute, page…. From the entry dc
• At 9:30 am, 12 inmates were checked out to the dispensary.2010, Peterson's, Master the Corrections Officer Exam, Peterson's, page 9. From the entry check out
• McNeil Island Penitentiary contained a centrally located law library, which inmates referred to as the “writ room.”2010, Daniel Burton-Rose, Guerrilla USA. From the entry writ-room
• The inmates and two accomplices executed the breakout with militarylike precision, witnesses said.2009 August 9, Nicola Clark, “In Some Prison Breaks Across Europe, Helicopters Replace the File in the Cake”, in New York Times. From the entry militarylike
• Observant visitors to any prison will quickly recognize commonalties in its inmate population.2007, Curt R. Blakely, chapter 2, in Prisons, Penology and Penal Reform: An Introduction to Institutional Specialization, New York: Peter…. From the entry commonalty
• “Any of you want to borrow some burn,” asked a scarred inmate known as Bull.2006, S. Drake, A Cry for Help, Chipmunkapublishing ltd, →ISBN, Chapter 7, page 94. From the entry burn
• Yet that won't begin to uncram inmates who are currently in the system.2001, Illinois Issues, volume 27, page 4. From the entry uncram
• Ultradangerous inmates like Willie Bosket, known to his keepers as "Dr.2000, “Natural Born Killers”, in Robert Brent Toplin, editor, Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, and Controversy, Lawrence, K.S.…. From the entry ultradangerous
• The first duty was to get a proper head count of each inmate, insuring each was alive.1998, Steven Herberts, The Correctional Officer Inside Prisons, page 38. From the entry unlock
• Finding a lawyer to represent a death row inmate has never been easy, Lardent says.1996 June, Mark Hansen, “Death’s Door”, in Gary A. Hengstler, editor, ABA Journal: The Lawyer’s Magazine, volume 82, Chicago, Ill.…. From the entry pro bono
• We were constantly hearing he-say she-say from inmates trying to break us up out of sheer jealousy.1986 August 16, Kathy Shena, “First Love Based on $50 Bet”, in Gay Community News, volume 14, number 5, page 10. From the entry he say, she say
• Then “the dangerosity” of the inmate is matched to the security rating of the prison, he said.1984 March 19, Sue Yanagisawa, “Just how maximum is a maximum-security prison? It all depends on the institution’s ‘S’ rating”, in The…. From the entry dangerosity
• Exactly what each outmate does for his inmate will vary with individual situations.1972, Christian Herald, volume 95, page 51, column 3. From the entry outmate
• One way to help an outmate is to let her return to help the inmates.1972, Nancy Thomas, “Helpmates: A Volunteer Recreation Program in a City Jail”, in Therapeutic Recreation Journal, volume 6, National…. From the entry outmate
• The big and little inmates of the Edgewater Orphanage will receive a visit from St.1936 December 22, “Orphans Given Party Tonight: Members of Townsmen Society to Be Accompanied by Santa, with Pack”, in Norfolk…. From the entry put on
• It was a close, musty, ill-ventilated place, since its inmate seldom left it.1927 January 22, Arthur Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger”, in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert]…. From the entry musty
• As a Thanksgiving day gift to inmates of the Texas penitentiary, Mrs.1925 December 5, “The War in Texas”, in The Atlanta Constitution, volume LVIII, number 175, Atlanta, Ga., page six, column 1. From the entry governor-ess
• They made her feel like a workhouse inmate.2022 March 17, Vicki Beeby, chapter 4, in A New Start for the Wrens (The Wrens; 1), London: Canelo, →ISBN. From the entry bluette
• One former inmate, “Jason”, spoke of his stays in seven different institutions between the ages of 14 and 17.2020 July 23, Chris Daw, “'A stain on national life': why are we locking up so many children?'”, in The Guardian. From the entry shock to the system
• Another inmate was found dead there in November.2020 January 8, Owen Bowcott, “Investigation after prisoner found dead in cell at Belmarsh”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Belmarsh
• Inmates are screened to make sure they’re mentally stable and unlikely to plot an escape before they come to Bastoy.2012 May 24, John D. Sutter, “Welcome to the world’s nicest prison”, in CNN. From the entry Nilsen
• In two of these studies, LWOP inmates had rates of prison misconduct that were equivalent to parole-eligible inmates.2008, Matt DeLisi, Peter John Conis, Violent Offenders: Theory, Research, Public Policy, and Practice, Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN…. From the entry LWOP
• The great majority of the inmates are black and Hispanic.2002 April 21, Marek Fuchs, “The Women Of Sing Sing”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry Sing Sing
• Its name is Mycobacterium tuberculosis, and it sallies forth on spumes of sputum each time an infected inmate coughs or sneezes.2001 January 15, David Bjerklie et al., “Your A to Z Guide to the Year in Medicine”, in Time. From the entry louse-ridden
• Existing studies of such institutions show that different institutional situations resulted in different ways of classifying weakminded inmates.1994, Michael Clark, Catherine Crawford, Legal Medicine in History, →ISBN, page 234. From the entry weakminded
• I was sentenced to 90 days 'keep-lock' in order 'to deter other inmates from disobeying an order to urinate.'1989 December 17, Edward Inman, “Disobeying An Order To Piss Lands Transsexual In Isolation”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23…. From the entry keeplock

Meaning of inmate

1. noun A person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).
2. noun A person who shares a residence (such as a hotel guest, a lodger, or a student living on campus), or other place.
3. noun Synonym of passenger, a person held or riding within a vehicle.

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Questions about inmate in a sentence

How do you use inmate in a sentence?

Inmate is used as a noun. For example: “The asylum inmate muttered some doggerel about chains and pains to himself, over and over.”

What is a short sentence with inmate?

“Another inmate was found dead there in November.”

What does inmate mean?

Inmate means a person confined to an institution such as a prison (as a convict) or hospital (as a patient).