How to Use jailer in a Sentence

jailer

noun
  • The jailed and the jailer, both are equally trapped.
    — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 17 Feb. 2026
  • Orr ran from a jailer, climbed a fence and took off, Mitchell said.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • There’s a jailer standing watch as a line of inmates files past.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • More than 1,000 worked as jailers.
    — Clare Amari, New York Times, 27 May 2026
  • At one point, one of her jailers questioned her about her Terezín job.
    — Zuzana Justman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • Some have been both prisoners and jailers.
    — Foreign Affairs, 22 Apr. 2025
  • One jailer wrote on the signature line that she could not be trusted with a pen.
    — Christopher Damien, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car.
    — Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2022
  • The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car.
    — CBS News, 12 May 2022
  • There were female jailers who beat and cursed her and called her an infidel.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • Elliott said one comment from a female jailer left her shocked.
    — Daniel Wilkerson, CBS News, 15 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • Johnson’s death was ruled a homicide, and two jailers face murder charges.
    — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2025
  • At one point she was briefly charged with assaulting a jailer, though the charge was later dropped.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 11 Dec. 2017
  • Sharp, 57, has hearing aids, which the jailers had to remove each evening to charge.
    — Kelsy Mittauer, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Posts from Holt and other inmates say jailers were bent on hurting them.
    — Fox News, 17 May 2018
  • Reyna told her lawyers that she was abused by her jailers before she was deported.
    — Marcos Breton, Sacbee.com, 23 Dec. 2025
  • The jailer on duty noticed a lumpy part of the Bible's binding.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
  • An inmate who was paraplegic and asked for a catheter almost had his neck broken by one of his jailers4.
    — Angela Helm, The Root, 26 Aug. 2017
  • 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 jailer was said to have found blood on Bethea’s underwear when he was asked to disrobe.
    — Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
  • After the incident, jailers cleared out the dorm — then went back later in the day to search the area for drugs.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Fellow inmates told jailers that Fomby was the one who smuggled in the deadly drugs.
    — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 17 Mar. 2025
  • The jailer and murder suspect were last seen driving in the copper Ford Edge on this day.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 3 May 2022
  • 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
  • Satan was attacking the male jailer because his father had done such good work as a minister in the jail.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 June 2026
  • Black Warrant carved out a distinct voice in the crime genre by flipping the lens—from the prisoner to the jailer.
    — Sweta Kaushal, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
  • 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
  • The jailers retreated to the secure booking area, and Northcross followed them.
    — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024

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