How to Use jailer in a Sentence

jailer

noun
  • Orr ran from a jailer, climbed a fence and took off, Mitchell said.
    — Ashley Remkus, AL.com, 31 Jan. 2018
  • He was booked into the jail at 9:39 a.m., said a deputy jailer.
    — Chris Mayhew, The Enquirer, 21 May 2021
  • 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
  • The jailer on duty noticed a lumpy part of the Bible's binding.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 29 Mar. 2018
  • The jailer on duty noticed a lumpy part of the Bible's binding.
    — Max Londberg, kansascity, 28 Mar. 2018
  • At one point, one of her jailers questioned her about her Terezín job.
    — Zuzana Justman, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car.
    — CBS News, 12 May 2022
  • The search was on for a hulking fugitive, a jailer and their orange car.
    — CBS News, 12 May 2022
  • There’s a jailer standing watch as a line of inmates files past.
    — Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2023
  • One of the fault lines is Hansraj Landa, the sadistic jailer played by Vivek Gomber.
    — Anupama Chopra, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Such a detainer would have asked jailers to hold Valles for 48 hours.
    — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 28 Mar. 2017
  • 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 next month, Sheriff Scott demoted him to work the graveyard shift as a jailer.
    — Jerry Mitchell Rory Doyle, New York Times, 19 July 2023
  • The jailer and murder suspect were last seen driving in the copper Ford Edge on this day.
    — Michael Ruiz, Fox News, 3 May 2022
  • At one point she was briefly charged with assaulting a jailer, though the charge was later dropped.
    — Keri Blakinger, Houston Chronicle, 11 Dec. 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • There were female jailers who beat and cursed her and called her an infidel.
    — Robert F. Worth, New York Times, 24 May 2017
  • Merrill and four other prisoners -- Lenahan was not one of them -- beat the jailer and locked him in a cell.
    — oregonlive, 24 Feb. 2020
  • That night, 15 disguised men overpowered the jailer, took Renfroe out of town and lynched him.
    — al, 11 Aug. 2020
  • Always, though, the point of the anecdote is the same: Armstrong improvised a joke on his erstwhile jailers and took care not to let them in on it.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 9 Jan. 2020
  • One of Turkey’s distinctions is to be the biggest jailer of journalists in all the world.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 20 Oct. 2020
  • Los Angeles County is the largest jailer in the country.
    — Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2019
  • There are no cameras in the room where inmates are changed, which is where Miller was pepper-sprayed, according to the jailers.
    — Nichole Manna, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 7 May 2024
  • Johnson’s death was ruled a homicide, and two jailers face murder charges.
    — Cody Copeland, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Turkey remains the largest jailer of journalists in the world — and that includes China and Iran.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 19 June 2023
  • Moreno is the jailer shown on the video kneeling on Johnson’s back, and Garcia was a supervisor.
    — Lillie Davidson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Feb. 2025

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