jailed
past simple and past participle ofjail
| 单词 | jailed |
| 释义 | jailed past simple and past participle ofjail jail verb[Toften passive] (UKold-fashionedgaol)uk/dʒeɪl/us/dʒeɪl/to put someone in a jail: He was jailedforthreeyears. Synonym imprison
Putting people in prison
Examplesofjailedjailed In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. Or perhaps he believes that prior to a conviction suspects should never bejailed? From theCambridge English Corpus Pressured by the demonstration, the judge freed all the workers andjailedthe factory administrator. From theCambridge English Corpus Only 19 percent of those who had been imprisoned werejailedfor periods that did not exceed one month. From theCambridge English Corpus The author is hot - the winner of a prestigious literary prize or a recentlyjaileddissident. From theCambridge English Corpus He looks as if he werejailedfor life. From theCambridge English Corpus They admonished drunkards,jailedadulterers, and obligated reluctant suitors to marry pregnant sweethearts. From theCambridge English Corpus Opposition parties were banned or harassed out of existence, defiant leaders were exiled orjailed. From theCambridge English Corpus Thus, the government has banned and confiscated editions of papers printing materials it finds objectionable andjailedjournalists and editors. From theCambridge English Corpus Refugees and the politically disenfranchised were enumerated, classified, controlled, isolated, forcibly employed, resettled or evenjailed. From theCambridge English Corpus If it were absolute and operative at every stage of a prosecution, the defendant could never bejaileduntil conviction. From theCambridge English Corpus Huge numbers of older children found themselvesjailedfor vagrancy as a result. From theCambridge English Corpus A decade later, the costs are clear: nearly a million peoplejailedfor drug violations, many of them minor possession charges. From theCambridge English Corpus Some were arrested and brieflyjailed. From theCambridge English Corpus Travel permits set temporal and geographical limits to journeys, and refugees apprehended by the security services without such a document are liable to bejailed. 14. From theCambridge English Corpus They are likely to emphasise that militias have disarmed, that commerce and farming are picking up, and that former warlords now serve in the army or have beenjailed. From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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