How to Use prisoner in a Sentence

prisoner

noun
  • The families were held prisoner for four days.
  • He was captured by rebel forces and kept as their prisoner for several months before they set him free.
  • The Gimp had been a prisoner there for a while.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026
  • All the prisoners are out of jail now and all the hungry are fed.
    — Michele Amabile Angermiller, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2026
  • Why was Brown on the list of prisoners?
    — Nora O'Neill, Charlotte Observer, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Once the prisoner ceases his danse macabre, the crowd goes wild.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2026
  • The group said at least 16 of them could come home through prisoner swaps.
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC News, 4 May 2022
  • The two sides did agree to a prisoner swap and a full ceasefire by the end of that year.
    — ABC News, 24 Aug. 2025
  • The names of the prisoners were not released.
    — Orlando Matos, NBC news, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Also, so the prisoner didn’t get any ideas.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2026
  • Please do tell me about other prisoners.
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • What are your biggest fears for the prisoners in Iran right now?
    — Cora Engelbrecht, New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Hall was one of nine prisoners on Idaho’s death row.
    — Kevin Fixler, Idaho Statesman, 10 Feb. 2026
  • This is not the first time prisoners have taken hostages this summer.
    — Ana María Cañizares, CNN, 2 Sep. 2023
  • The Taliban said last week that a deal had been reached on a prisoner swap.
    — Andrew Stanton jason Lemon, MSNBC Newsweek, 18 Sep. 2025
  • So that’s the worst feeling, feeling like a prisoner in your own body.
    — Jared Weiss, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • That round led to the first prisoner swap between the countries in five months.
    — Mariia Kashchenko, CBS News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Many courts have sided with the trans prisoners in forcing those changes.
    — Jaclyn Diaz, NPR, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Aside from a prisoner exchange, little, if any, progress was made in the talks.
    — Washington Examiner Staff, The Washington Examiner, 12 Feb. 2026
  • That’s to say that nobody else is left to guard Stephen, who is still a prisoner.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 22 Apr. 2022
  • No breakthrough was made, although a new prisoner swap was agreed.
    — Lorne Cook, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2026
  • The prisoners got out and the saw the torturers.
    — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Nearby, deputies bribed a prisoner to serve as their enforcer.
    — USA Today, 8 Mar. 2026
  • He’s taken prisoner, forced to fight, and dies in battle.
    — Lincee Ray, Entertainment Weekly, 10 Apr. 2026
  • The rate is also much higher than the cost of housing state prisoners.
    — Kristine Phillips, IndyStar, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Two women in medical scrubs are in the room, away from the deputies and prisoner.
    — Penny Weaver, Arkansas Online, 15 June 2026
  • One of his tortures is forcing his prisoners to watch it on repeat.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • One concrete action point is the social work done with prisoners in prison.
    — Kristen Edgreen Kaufman, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
  • The man held two of their victims prisoner at a cabin in Wilseyville.
    — Alexiah Syrai Olsen, Sacbee.com, 19 May 2026
  • By no stretch of the imagination are these prisoners a flight risk.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026

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