How to Use warden in a Sentence

warden

noun
  • The warden might cut off his mail.
    — John H. Richardson, Air Mail, 1 Nov. 2025
  • There, the warden led him to a dirty pile of roots and small gray logs.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • My dad worked as a beach warden, and my mom was a seamstress.
    — Vogue, 29 Apr. 2022
  • The prison staff didn’t know much about the new acting warden.
    — Michael R. Sisak and Michael Balsamo, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Three days after that, the warden of the prison was killed, too.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
  • That's no life partner, that's a warden.
    — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Some wardens said his control over the jail rivaled their own.
    — Fox News, 15 Aug. 2018
  • The warden and paramedics used a boat to find the students and rescue them.
    — Amy McDaniel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 Apr. 2025
  • The dog, named Zeus, has been removed from the home by dog wardens.
    — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland.com, 14 Feb. 2018
  • The husband tries to get away with shenanigans, and the wife is his warden.
    — Vulture, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Armas said the prison wardens never switched off the lights.
    — Manuel Rueda, NPR, 20 Mar. 2026
  • Well, the wardens don’t have power beyond what the law says, right?
    — Seija Rankin, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Oct. 2024
  • The prison warden read aloud the death warrant, then asked whether there were any final words.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2021
  • Jose Morales was the warden of the prison when Cofield arrived.
    — Charles Bethea, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
  • The report will be sent to the dog warden for further review.
    — Fox News, 20 Mar. 2018
  • In it, the warden confirmed lights are on 24/7.
    — Mirella Brussani, CBS News, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The former warden was sentenced to more than five years in prison in March.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 Nov. 2023
  • The warden was made aware of the call, according to the lawsuit.
    — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Small notes smuggled to his wife through a prison warden speak to Roenne’s motives.
    — Sigrid MacRae, Harper's Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The new warden made Tina's release work like clockwork.
    — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 1 June 2026
  • One of the dogs is getting special treatment and care at a deputy warden's house, the post said.
    — Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 23 Mar. 2018
  • The judge added that Simpson did not try to interview the warden.
    — Ivana Hrynkiw | [email protected], al, 20 Oct. 2022
  • There are stowaways in the trunk of the warden’s car who want to take the story in one direction.
    — Time, 29 Sep. 2021
  • Two mayors had been murdered, and the warden of a prison in Manabí had been killed.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • Once again, she was summoned to the warden’s office and told that the trade was imminent.
    — J Wortham January Lavoy Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 2 May 2024
  • Where you were accused of trying to kill the warden, at Lucasville?
    — Bob Guccione Jr., SPIN, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The warden’s high-stakes deal is for Murphy to smuggle gold out of a remote mine.
    — Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 25 June 2026
  • The man in the photo, a warden whose name is Syahrul, is one of those caretakers.
    — Bayliss Wagner, USA TODAY, 13 Oct. 2021
  • He was sent to the city dog warden in Columbus, then to a shelter, where he was rescued.
    — Mike Giuliano, cleveland, 10 Dec. 2020
  • Near the dead eagle, Maine wildlife warden Neal Wykes had found a dead loon chick.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 May 2020

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