How to Use inmate in a Sentence

inmate

noun
  • The inmates were less well cared for.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Deputies did not say what may have caused the inmate’s death.
    — Max Levy, The Denver Post, 8 Feb. 2025
  • The unit can hold up to 12 inmates.
    — Katrina Kaufman, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Other inmates get to go to the yard.
    — Maer Roshan, HollywoodReporter, 10 Mar. 2026
  • Ten inmates have died in custody so far this year.
    — Jason Henry, Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026
  • The act was playing for the inmates to début his new band.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The death row inmate is not the victim.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Three of the five inmates died within one week.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Brown was an inmate with both Erik and Lyle.
    — Amanda Castro hannah Parry, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The weapon, which the inmate shouldn't have had, misfired and no one was hurt.
    — CBS News, 25 Nov. 2023
  • Other inmates made her bed, washed her clothes, gave her food and cleaned her cell.
    — Brad Schmitt, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Upton was one of 19 inmates to die that year.
    — Christopher Damien, USA Today, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Some of those inmates were non-Catholics and some were women.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 4 Apr. 2026
  • The number on the firearm is Rocha’s inmate pin.
    — Pj Green, Kansas City Star, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Epstein was the most high-profile inmate at that prison at the time.
    — Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2026
  • The deputy and the inmate began to struggle, and both fell to the ground.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 14 July 2023
  • Many inmates died inside the prison, some in the electric chair.
    — Craig Shoup, Nashville Tennessean, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Many inmates are not treated fairly by the courts.
    — Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 4 May 2026
  • A week later, a wall remained stained with the young inmate’s blood.
    — Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • The inmates were offered cheese pizza or navy beans.
    — Lauryn Overhultz, FOXNews.com, 5 Nov. 2025
  • He could be seen chatting with his fellow inmates.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
  • He is charged with trafficking with an inmate.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Medics pronounced the inmate, a 39-year-old man, dead.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The inmate claimed the whole wing overheard the exchange.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 8 Mar. 2026
  • He was forced to watch when a young inmate was punched in the face three times in rapid succession.
    — Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
  • Deputies arrived to find the inmate on the floor of the cell and tried to revive him, deputies said.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Dockery was not listed as an inmate.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Bacon says inmates are being held longer.
    — Shaun Boyd, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The inmate wasn’t the only one who found it out of the ordinary.
    — Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Assaults against inmates rose to 137 that year.
    — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 5 Nov. 2025

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