Sentence for prisoner | Use prisoner in a sentence

A sentence using the word prisoner. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use prisoner in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for prisoner.

• I was a prisoner. (7)
• But I am a prisoner. (8)
• You know the prisoner? (8)
• The prisoner looked up. (8)
• I call the prisoner, my lord. (8)
• Her hand became a closer prisoner. (10)
• The prisoner was clearly an Englishman. (10)
• I did not know then who held me a prisoner. (10)
• For, a writ once served, you are a prisoner. (10)
• He was again the fated prisoner of his word. (10)
• How long had the prisoner been in their employ? (8)
• Prisoner at the bar, you stand convicted of felony. (8)
• The prisoner passed on down the stairs, and vanished. (8)
• Gentlemen, the prisoner is only twenty-three years old. (8)
• If he was a prisoner he was apparently a tractable one. (1)
• This prisoner had a truly nerveless pitiable dejected air. (8)
• I am a prisoner: I am compelled to continue this imposture. (10)
• The captain had paused in his walk and was facing his prisoner. (1)
• She has every reason to favour the prisoner, but what did she say? (8)
• They had another prisoner, picked up in some raid beyond the river. (7)
• He looked at the prisoner, trying not to give way to this prejudice. (8)
• He can safely ride into the hostile ranks and become a prisoner of war. (1)
• The prisoner had followed the combat first with anxiety, then with joy. (5)
• The prisoner started slightly and a look of anxiety came into his face. (1)
• And the prisoner seemed to look at him, though this, perhaps, was fancy. (8)
• Are you managing clerk to the firm of solicitors who employ the prisoner? (8)
• It was beautiful, I had to own, even in my quality of exile and prisoner. (9)
• Accordingly one Joshua Huddy, who had been taken prisoner by them, was hanged. (19)
• Farina modestly stood aside, and allowed the Goshawk to confront his prisoner. (10)
• You heard me ask the prisoner what he thought of during those four fatal minutes. (8)
• The prisoner forced his way through, dropped to the ground, rose, staggered, and fell. (8)
• Andre was a prisoner at Salem and had written a confession of the part that he had played. (18)
• To be held a prisoner by that most secret of all his instincts, the instinct for authority! (8)
• The prisoner hesitated; the officer grasped him by the collar and pushed him gently forward. (1)
• Count Lenkenstein has declared that he will stay at the castle till he has him his prisoner. (10)
• I am trying to establish the state of mind in which the prisoner committed this act, my lord. (8)
• I ask, you know, because you seem to me to glory in this affection of yours for the prisoner. (8)
• The prisoner of his word is sure to take his airing before he presents himself to redeem it. (10)
• The facts are admitted, so far as the alteration of this cheque and counterfoil by the prisoner. (8)
• Matey was the prisoner gazing at light of a barred window and measuring the strength of the bars. (10)
• The question is whether the prisoner knew that suspicion would light on himself, and not on Davis. (8)
• A French prisoner on board began wringing his hands, declaring that they would all go to the bottom. (19)
• No stranger has ever before crossed that threshold, nor any Russian unless he entered as a prisoner. (12)
• By such a marriage you enter the camp which held your mother prisoner and wherein she ate her heart out. (8)
• A sound of retiring footsteps in the passage outside ensued, and the man was to all appearance a prisoner. (1)
• Towards afternoon, if the prisoner is unpopular, there will be a round of hisses when he is brought forth. (2)
• It was as if his eyes had mounted guard over the prisoner while his mind concerned itself with other matters. (1)
• The officer drew his sword and fixing his eyes upon the prisoner pointed silently to the opening of the tent. (1)
• The prisoner underneath might clamour and leap; none heard him or knew of him; nor did he ever view the day. (10)
• Testimony of a pawnbroker, that this same ring was pawned with him the first thing yesterday morning by the prisoner. (8)
• Now, gentlemen, if the prisoner had pleaded guilty my friend would have had to rely on a simple appeal to his lordship. (8)
• Braintop, after a short struggle, and an effort at speech, which was loosely shaken in his mouth, heard that he stood a prisoner. (10)
• He had been in the midst and worst part of the battle of Custozza, and had escaped being taken prisoner by what seemed a miracle. (10)
• The youth gaped when he found his arm taken prisoner by the insertion of a small deliciously-gloved and perfumed hand through it. (10)
• But a smile had become so faithful to her eyes that it clung there above the shadows of fatigue, and kept taking her lips prisoner. (8)
• They could snub such a friend of their prisoner as Breckon, but they could not meet the dovelike ferocity of Ellen with unkindness. (9)
• He then launched off the shoulder a mighty down-fling, calmly, watching it strike the prisoner to earth, like an ox under the hammer. (10)
• I did not hurry away, but lingered in the courts, fascinated by the notion that the fate of each prisoner had first passed through my hands. (8)
• I submit to your worship that these questions are hardly to the point, the prisoner having admitted that he himself does not remember anything. (8)
• If the prisoner be found guilty, and treated as though he were a criminal type, he will, as all experience shows, in all probability become one. (8)
• The Goshawk lunged out with the truncheon, but the prisoner displayed no hesitation in complying, and fell back about a space of fifteen yards. (10)
• You will hear from her own lips the tragic circumstances of her life, the still more tragic infatuation with which she has inspired the prisoner. (8)
• He was made prisoner and placed in the custody of some of the insurgents, who, regardless of mercy and decency, butchered him in barbarous fashion. (19)
• Beads of perspiration stood thick on his patchily coloured forehead; with lips stiffening, and intently staring eyes, he waited for what the released prisoner would say. (8)

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