How to Use jailer in a Sentence

jailer

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  • Orr ran from a jailer, climbed a fence and took off, Mitchell said.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • He was booked into the jail at 9:39 a.m., said a deputy jailer.
    — Chris Mayhew, The Enquirer, 21 May 2021
  • Their jailers say the women are rarely locked in and have access to the bathroom most of the time.
    — Otis R. Taylor Jr., San Francisco Chronicle, 2 Nov. 2017
  • The jailer on duty noticed a lumpy part of the Bible's binding.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 29 Mar. 2018
  • At one point, one of her jailers questioned her about her Terezín job.
    — Zuzana Justman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car.
    — CBS News, 12 May 2022
  • There’s a jailer standing watch as a line of inmates files past.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • Such a detainer would have asked jailers to hold Valles for 48 hours.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2017
  • The next month, Sheriff Scott demoted him to work the graveyard shift as a jailer.
    — Jerry Mitchell Rory Doyle, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • The jailer and murder suspect were last seen driving in the copper Ford Edge on this day.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 3 May 2022
  • At one point she was briefly charged with assaulting a jailer, though the charge was later dropped.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 11 Dec. 2017
  • At one point, she got caught in the middle of a clash between inmates and jailers and wound up caught in a cell filled with pepper spray.
    — Amy Yurkanin | [email protected], al, 4 Aug. 2023
  • There were female jailers who beat and cursed her and called her an infidel.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • Merrill and four other prisoners -- Lenahan was not one of them -- beat the jailer and locked him in a cell.
    — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2020
  • That night, 15 disguised men overpowered the jailer, took Renfroe out of town and lynched him.
    — al, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Always, though, the point of the anecdote is the same: Armstrong improvised a joke on his erstwhile jailers and took care not to let them in on it.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • One of Turkey’s distinctions is to be the biggest jailer of journalists in all the world.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Los Angeles County is the largest jailer in the country.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2019
  • There are no cameras in the room where inmates are changed, which is where Miller was pepper-sprayed, according to the jailers.
    — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
  • Turkey remains the largest jailer of journalists in the world — and that includes China and Iran.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 June 2023
  • Posts from Holt and other inmates say jailers were bent on hurting them.
    — Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • Gray first began working at the sheriff's office in 2003 as a jailer.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 3 Nov. 2017
  • And that therefore there is a sort of, longing, and an unbreakable bond between the prisoner and the jailer.
    — Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 15 Apr. 2019
  • Our standing as the world’s No. 2 jailer, behind China, is troubling and wrong.
    — Steven P. Dinkin, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 June 2023
  • After all, if prisons and jails made people safer, America (the largest jailer in the world) would be the safest nation on the planet.
    — Washington Post, 23 July 2021
  • The defendants are the jailer, another jailer, a nurse and Woods.
    — Arkansas Online, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Turkey is one of the world's biggest jailer of journalists.
    — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 May 2023
  • But he and his wife, Thamara Caleno, were never brought to the courthouse by jailers at El Helicoide.
    — NBC News, 17 May 2018
  • Open lines of sight, private counseling rooms, medical equipment and a Gatorade station are all designed to help jailers keep an eye on people going through withdrawals.
    — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 2 June 2024
  • Navarro started the day in a federal prison in Florida and ended the night disparaging his jailers before a rapturous crowd of Republicans.
    — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 18 July 2024

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