How to Use sally port in a Sentence

sally port

noun
  • At the new courthouse, the sally port is enclosed by iron fence and no longer open to public view.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2022
  • At what time and point of altercation did the deputies respond to the sally port?
    — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The sally port where prisoners are transported to and from the court isn’t big enough.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 21 Dec. 2020
  • The sally port where prisoners are transported to and from the court isn’t big enough.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 11 Oct. 2022
  • In October, a man died in the sally port before he was booked into the jail.
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2022
  • Talk of adding a sally port for a more secure transport of arrestees dates back several years.
    — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Puckett had arrived there six months earlier, handcuffed and driven in through a sally port gate around the side.
    — Raheem Hosseini, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Hardin left through a back sally port gate, which is typically used for vehicle traffic.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 15 June 2025
  • The truck, with Mercado somehow hanging on, then approached the first of two gates at a sally port.
    — Dave Altimari, courant.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • The media tour began in the same place where buses drop off migrants at the sally port of the converted warehouse.
    — Emanuella Grinberg and Geneva Sands, CNN, 28 June 2019
  • Arquillo took those drugs in the jail’s sally port, and jail staff nearby did not notice, Synenberg said.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Boyd, Hill said, stole the police vehicle, crashed through the sally port gate and led lawmen on a short pursuit.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 11 Feb. 2021
  • Horton said Gadsden police were taking Boyd back to jail and his restraints had been moved in sally port.
    — Carol Robinson | [email protected], al, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Jahn opened fire while the sally port to the facility was open as the detainees were being transferred, officials said.
    — Adam Sabes, FOXNews.com, 25 Sep. 2025
  • The facility will have an 8-foot-tall privacy fence and a sally port, which is a secure entryway like those used in jails.
    — Sophie Carson, jsonline.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Lyons said the gunfire appeared to come from outside the secure facility and struck victims inside the sally port area, where detainees are held.
    — Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Platten testified that Mills moved the intake screening process from the sally port, where inmates first enter the jail, to the seventh floor.
    — Cory Shaffer, cleveland, 1 Sep. 2021
  • They were all held inside the station, leaving a converted sally port and warehouse empty, according to his report.
    — Rafael Carranza, azcentral, 18 July 2019
  • Parked in the underground sally port, the arresting officer stepped out of the SUV.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Jan. 2021
  • Three detainees in a van in the Dallas ICE facility’s sally port were shot.
    — David K. Li, NBC news, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Authorities say the shooter opened fire when the sally port to the facility was open during the transfer of detainees, attempting to force his way in.
    — Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Once the garage/sally port is constructed, Kaminski said enclosing the front entrance to the station will be the remaining project.
    — Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 9 Sep. 2021
  • Several officers confirmed that the inmates were walked naked from the recreation sally port attached to a cuff retainer or rope and other restraint devices.
    — Michael Harriot, The Root, 5 Oct. 2017
  • Lyons reportedly told the network that the shooter fired into the sally port area of the ICE office, where detainees are brought in.
    — Richard Hall, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
  • The project will include four kennel runs, a cat quarantine room and sick bay, clinic room with two surgery bays, office and storage areas, an education meeting room and a sally port.
    — Susan McFarland, Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Bergman, who’d been arrested that evening at a downtown hotel, was in the backseat of a police SUV parked in the underground sally port.
    — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
  • The ayes were unanimous for the setback and the variance, for the bigger parking lot and the sally port, but when the vote on the jail came up last November, voters killed the initiative.
    — Jeff MacGregor, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2023
  • Herrin ran through an exit door, down a flight of stairs and exited the hospital on the sally port, on the north side of Harborview along Jefferson Street.
    — Sara Jean Green, The Seattle Times, 12 July 2018
  • While at police headquarters, he was left in the back of a patrol SUV parked in the sally port as an officer was filling out booking paperwork.
    — Fox News, 9 July 2020
  • At the Wood courthouse, inmates were visible to the public when they were brought to court because transport vehicles descended into an open sally port behind the courthouse.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 11 Jan. 2022

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