(n.) A kind of prison; a building for the confinement of persons held in lawful custody, especially for minor offenses or with reference to some future judicial proceeding.
(v. t.) To imprison.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sharif's family insist that he still runs the party from jail.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Joe Davis protests against his wife Kim’s jailing.
(3) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(4) He is not the only jailed or exiled opponent of the CCP.
(5) The private eye was well known to the News of the World, having worked for the paper for several years before he was jailed, when Coulson was deputy editor.
(6) A 76-year-old British national has been held in an Iranian jail for more than four years and convicted of spying, his family has revealed, as they seek to draw attention to the plight of a man they describe as one of the “oldest and loneliest prisoners in Iran”.
(7) Jails and prison populations are unique in the incidence of deliberate self-harm, but the phenomenon is not well understood.
(8) Pope Francis’s no-longer-secret meeting in Washington DC with anti-gay activist Kim Davis, the controversial Kentucky county clerk who was briefly jailed over her refusal to issue same-sex marriage licenses in compliance with state law, leaves LGBT people with no illusions about the Pope’s stance on equal rights for us, despite his call for inclusiveness.
(9) But Gashi told the Guardian: "I am responsible for innocent people going to jail.
(10) The highly critical report brought an immediate response from Michael Spurr, the chief executive of the National Offender Management Service, who said the jail would receive the support it needed to build on its recent progress.
(11) But should a traffic officer go to jail for neglecting a dangerous road, or a doctor who misses a critical symptom, or a judge who lets a murderer go free?
(12) His lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, died in a Russian jail in 2009 after being refused medical treatment.
(13) I'm here to defend her 'til the end even if they put me in jail."
(14) Also in June, a former welfare minister, Shlomo Benizri , was jailed for four years for taking bribes while in office.
(15) It is the same article of the law that was used against Pussy Riot and can carry a jail sentence of several years.
(16) Under Xi some of the party’s most powerful figures have been humiliated and jailed as part of a high-profile anti-corruption campaign that has seen hundreds of thousands of party officials disciplined across the country.
(17) Maberley told him there were 6,000 instances of phone hacking, although only one case had been prosecuted, involving the royal reporter Clive Goodman, who subsequently went to jail.
(18) To gauge whether more stringent civil commitment criteria have led to the criminalization of mentally ill persons, forcing them into jails and prisons instead of treating them, a statewide sample of 1,226 civil commitment candidates in North Carolina was tracked for six months after their commitment hearings.
(19) Ron Hogg, the PCC for Durham says that dwindling resources and a reluctance to throw people in jail over a plant (I paraphrase slightly) has led him to instruct his officers to leave pot smokers alone.
(20) There are no cases Money could uncover of people convicted for slipping a dodgy £1 into a vending machine or palming one off to their newsagent, but criminal gangs have been jailed for manufacturing fake coins.
Jug
Definition:
(n.) A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
(n.) A pitcher; a ewer.
(n.) A prison; a jail; a lockup.
(v. t.) To seethe or stew, as in a jug or jar placed in boiling water; as, to jug a hare.
(v. t.) To commit to jail; to imprison.
(v. i.) To utter a sound resembling this word, as certain birds do, especially the nightingale.
(v. i.) To nestle or collect together in a covey; -- said of quails and partridges.
Example Sentences:
(1) The tinsel coiled around a jug of squash and bauble in the strip lighting made a golf-ball size knot of guilt burn in my throat.
(2) Allow to cool slightly for a few minutes before serving, with a jug of chilled cream alongside.
(3) Priapic gadabouts in peephole codpieces hey-nonny-no-ing past plates of glazed pig as smouldering flibbertigibbets pout and motion to their jugs.
(4) Our kind waiter, Paul, delighted our tot with her own special jug and cup, and steaming bowlfuls of spätzle pasta.
(5) You will never see cream in my house that is not in a jug, nor salt that is not in a cellar.
(6) I requested a jug from the nurse but she said the jug was broken and they had no others available.
(7) They took the term skiffle from a favourite record, Home Town Skiffle, a compilation of American jug band styles and western swing.
(8) I'm not too well up on the Middle Eastern judicial system, but couldn't he get slung in the jug for a very long time for that?
(9) "Look – Putin didn't find down there jugs that had lain there for many thousands of years.
(10) If anything, his brother David looks more like Wallace because he really does have Wallace-style jug ears.
(11) When a glass+jug (900 ml) was visible the alcoholics drank significantly more than the non-alcoholics.
(12) The product was jugged to be galactonic acid, based on the behavior of the acetylmethyl ester derivative of the product and the pentaacetyl derivative of the galactonic methyl ester during gas chromatography.
(13) During one technical challenge, I saw one baker use, at the very least, six glass bowls, a saucepan, a sieve, a spatula, a silicon sheet, spoons, a pastry brush, a skewer, a cake tin, palette knives, piping bags, a measuring jug, scissors, a rolling pin, spoons and a cooling rack.
(14) Earlier this year, Waitrose reported that sales of 1 litre mixing bowls had more than doubled, measuring jug sales had quadrupled and rolling pins were up 40% .
(15) A row of Toby jugs grinned and grimaced from an ornament rail in the hall.
(16) Still employed in the early 1990s, the classic label sported a blue-and-white striped milk jug beside two cherry-red mugs, resting on sheaves of wheat, against an luminous yellow arc of - well, obviously, an incandescent light bulb.
(17) I was disciplined for not changing the water often enough for a woman I was caring for despite the jug never being less than half full.
(18) Thymol mouthwash which had been made up and distributed in communal jugs was found to be contaminated with the epidemic strain and was the likely source for this outbreak.
(19) The woman declined an offer to post the jugs back to her afterwards, and the constable now has one "at home as a little keepsake because I thought it was such a nice gesture".
(20) He is, for instance, technically taller than Martin Freeman but not by much more than a jug of Bree's finest hobbit ale.