11 sentences with 'prison'
Example sentences and phrases with the word prison and other words derived from it.
• « I was about to leave, while he was facing a 20-year prison sentence, or perhaps the death penalty. And yet he was genuinely happy. »
• « In such a case, the traitors may be men of obvious distinction... like Arne Treholt, the Norwegian who is currently in prison as retribution for his work for the KGB. »
• « In a letter surreptitiously smuggled out of prison, Arne Treholt is said to have mentioned banquets at the Soviet embassy at which international and Norwegian politics were discussed. »
• « In May 1997, Nicholas Copertino was convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years in prison. (He is currently appealing the verdict). »
• « On 14 July, a mob in search of arms invaded the Bastille, a royal prison and arsenal, and killed its guards. »
• « In September 1792, as the war began in earnest and the king languished in prison, a new constitution was instituted formally abolishing the monarchy and turning France into a republic with universal manhood suffrage. »
• « 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. »