How to Use slammer in a Sentence

slammer

noun
  • Mike Tyson, serving a year in the slammer for assault, is making a career change.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 12 Apr. 1999
  • Alfortish paid Garrison for his work as a slammer by check.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Instead of being grateful for the break, Saffell yelled to take him to the slammer, deputies said.
    — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 July 2017
  • Fried and baked fish, pizza, famous DeSales slammer, mac and cheese.
    — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 20 Feb. 2020
  • Others involved in the investigation who took a plea deal were only put in the slammer for five to seven years.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2021
  • What’s curious is that she was given a time-out in the slammer for what ordinarily could be just a ticket.
    — Fred Dickey, sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 May 2017
  • Blankenship, who did time in the slammer for his part in a deadly mining accident that killed 29 people, hasn’t gone away.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 4 June 2018
  • And the Padres, after adding at the trade deadline, have their assortment of door slammers all locked up for the foreseeable future.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Fans behind the Slammers dugout stood and clapped for Shane Bryant as the Joliet right-hander walked off the field.
    — Tim Tierney, Daily Southtown, 23 June 2017
  • If watching Woods struggle on the golf course in recent years was fun, there's nothing like seeing him before a booking cam on his way to the slammer.
    — Ap, USA TODAY, 30 May 2017
  • If watching Woods struggle on the golf course in recent years was fun, there’s nothing like seeing him before a booking cam on his way to the slammer.
    — Tim Dahlberg, The Denver Post, 31 May 2017
  • That La Helmsley would go on to spend 21 months in the slammer for tax evasion should not distract us from the basic truth of her statement.
    — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Willie Singletary, the former Traffic Court judge who went to the slammer for lying to the feds, is campaigning, too.
    — Holly Otterbein, Philly.com, 1 Feb. 2018
  • In a kind of apprenticeship system, Harris first worked as a spotter, then graduated to driving slammer cars.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Voters may once have looked at those violations as business-as-usual for pols, but over time, the penalties have morphed from mere fines to slammer-time — and likelier to sway voters.
    — Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Then frolic through our adult playground featuring a mechanical shark ride, surf board riding, grand slammer, human bowling, jousting, beer pong tables, corn hole, and more.
    — baltimoresun.com, 24 July 2019
  • The scoop slam The scoop slam involves the slammer reaching between an opponent's legs and around their back, lifting them up and turning the opponent upside down before dropping them to the mat.
    — Troy L. Smith, cleveland.com, 25 May 2017
  • Hotel tycoon Leona Helmsley checked herself into the slammer in 1989 for tax mistakes.
    — Philip Elliott, Time, 2 Apr. 2021
  • After Garrison first taught Harris how to be a slammer, around 2016, the two had worked together productively for a time.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Harris initially got involved after his mother participated in a slammer accident and gave him Garrison’s phone number.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Authorities claim Hickman played a central role as organizer, slammer and spotter, including pretending to be a witness to accidents staged by others.
    — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Of course, not all problem paterfamiliases make unwanted advances (à la Weinstein, allegedly) or end up in the slammer (à la Weiner).
    — Lucinda Rosenfeld, Town & Country, 21 Nov. 2017
  • Just as Garrison had been instructed in the slammer’s art by Jeffrey Derouselle, Garrison had in turn taught Red Harris how to be a slammer.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • Prisons stopped accepting new arrivals, and courts sent fewer people to the slammer, resulting in most of the overall decrease in the prison population between March and June 2020.
    — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 21 Jan. 2021
  • The white-collar probe took on a dark specter in September, when Garrison, an allegedly prolific slammer, was shot dead at age 54 inside his apartment in the Gentilly neighborhood.
    — John Simerman, NOLA.com, 5 Nov. 2020
  • Yesterday in Blacksburg felt like the door-slammer, 28-0 at halftime and 45-26 in the end, all a week after a 44-20 home loss to Vanderbilt.
    — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2025
  • In New Orleans, one of the earliest slammers was a jovial fellow named Damian Labeaud, who, starting in 2010, recruited passengers from the local community with the promise of insurance payouts, then took them hunting on the freeway for a truck.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
  • By 2015, Garrison and Derouselle were working together as slammers, collaborating with a lawyer named Jason Giles, who was a partner at a prominent Canal Street personal-injury outfit, the King Firm.
    — Patrick Radden Keefe, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026

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