jail cell

collocation in English

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jail
noun[C or U]
uk
/dʒeɪl/us
/dʒeɪl/
a place where criminals are kept to punish them for their crimes, or where people accused of crimes are kept while waiting for ...
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cell
noun[C]
uk
/sel/us
/sel/
the smallest basic unit of a plant ...
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The stocks, for example, were usually located in front of the town hall, and ajailcellinside served to imprison disobedient burghers.
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There is no sentencing, nojailcellat the end of a long corridor waiting to swing shut with a deafening, metallic clang.
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The argument relies on the ambiguity of the word, pen which could mean either a writing instrument, or ajailcell.
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He was imprisoned in the spring and summer of 1973, completing his undergraduate degree, in political science, from hisjailcell.
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The role is simple enough - living in ajailcelland intercepting any secret messages that may come through.
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His imagines himself as a convict in ajailcell.
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The police then put them in ajailcellfor a night.
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A conference room and offices are housed on the upper level, with the basement contains mechanical equipment and ajailcell.
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He lived in a decrepitjailcellunder the care of four black cellmates until his legal guardian could bail him out.
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After an innocent is threatened, he has a violent confrontation with the aggressors and ends up in ajailcell.
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The district attorney and his men who visit the station on a tipoff are imprisoned in ajailcell.
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One requirement was for a blues song to be sung in ajailcell.
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He manages to get himself arrested in order to seek the safety of ajailcell.
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Upchurch himself had a cameo within the movie as ajailcellguard.
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Later, he spends the night in ajailcellwhilst coming down from the effects of the drug.
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In hisjailcell, he scratches religious messages on the wall with his finger nails, causing them to bleed.
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Of interest in the formerjailcellarea are four murals painted directly on the concrete block walls.
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When a judge arrived to post their bail, they were finally married in a private ceremony in thejailcell.
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The originaljailcellblocks were subsequently demolished in 1994.
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They are locked in ajailcell.
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Biorr is found for the first time trapped in ajailcell, but the player manages to break him free.
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It was built in 1890, and the first floor features ajailcellwhere police operations occurred.
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