8 sentences with 'prisoner'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prisoner and other words derived from it.
• « Decades later, as a prisoner in a miserable British island prison in the South Atlantic, Napoleon would claim in his memoirs that all he had done was in the name of France and the Revolution. »
• « Ninety-six per cent of the Prussian army's more than 170,000 soldiers were lost, the vast majority (some 140,000) taken prisoner by the French. »
• « The first few months were a horrible disaster for the Soviets. The Soviet air force was completely destroyed, as were most of its armoured divisions. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers were taken prisoner. »
• « Prison officials strapped the prisoner to the electric chair and administered two 1750 volt shocks. »
• « One morning, while processing one such call, I asked the prisoner to wait "just a moment" while I established the connection. »
• « The prisoner laughed and said: "Just a moment...? Take your time, madam, I'll be here for 19 more years. »
• « In his book "Sound of the Mind", Dr. Land says: The tape the prisoner switched contained, recorded in very low frequency, voices, screams of terror and suffering. They were part of a thriller and part of another experiment he was about to initiate. I believe that the inmate Feldman went mad listening to them - on an unconscious level - and committed suicide in despair. »
• « Matthias Joseph Scheeben, one of the most renowned Christian theologians, wrote: "It is a doctrine of faith that humanity, by the sin of Adam, became a prisoner and slave of the devil. As, in its entirety, represented by its chief Adam, it was overcome by the Devil, is subject to him, belongs to him, and now constitutes the sum of his subjects on earth." »