prison yard

collocation in English

meaningsofprisonandyard

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prison
noun
uk
/ˈprɪz.ən/us
/ˈprɪz.ən/
a building where criminals are forced to live as ...
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yard
noun[C]
uk
/jɑːd/us
/jɑːrd/
a unit of measurement equal to three feet or approximately ...
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(Definition ofprisonandyardfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What work was done on theprisonyardand the compounds surrounding the block?
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We mass them together; we walk them round theprisonyardtogether; we try to make them uniform.
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Just as eight o'clock began to strike, a clatter of feet could be heard crossing theprisonyard.
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He faces a life of enforced confinement within the walls of the prison buildings and theprisonyard, ending only when he reaches the grave.
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He found one while taking his daily exercise, walking in circles around theprisonyard.
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The film centers around his obsession for running around theprisonyard.
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He next stunned the guards and prisoners by visiting theprisonyardunarmed and unescorted.
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The men carried two ladders across theprisonyardto the wall after dark.
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In theprisonyardhe disappeared into a dusty, dilapidated shed.
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You will learn from theprisonyardthat not all those in detention are criminals.
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Orchard confessed, and was transferred from death row to a private bungalow in theprisonyard.
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She encouraged them to turn down poorly paid menial labour in theprisonyard.
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Prisoners can exercise in the open air in theprisonyardwhere there are facilities for playing netball and can use the prison gymnasium containing health studio equipment.
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The congregation of the 15 men in theprisonyardhad been the first integrated exercise period in several months.
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Soon after the local and state police arrived and fired eight rounds of tear gas into theprisonyard.
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They refused and told her that my body would be buried in quicklime in theprisonyard.
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The prisoners had blasted their way through a door in the recreation area into theprisonyard.
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The tunnel would be dug from the cellar of the house to the stable inside theprisonyard.
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The dimensions of the parallelogram-shapedprisonyardare 82 feet in length, by 352 feet in width.
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He makes his first real appearance later in the pilot episode when he is seen in theprisonyard.
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The prisoners are cheated by a fake landscape built in theprisonyard, and end up right back in the same prison again.
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There was a small space for theprisonyard, solitary confinement, and a bigger room across from the prisoners for the guards and warden.
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He conducted and ran in numerous distance races inside theprisonyard, including completing and winning a full 26.2 mile marathon against inmates.
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One day while walking through theprisonyard, he noticed that his guard was not looking and scaled the nearby prison wall.
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Other witnesses testified that on the fateful day prison officials ordered the approximately 1,000 prisoners to line up in theprisonyard.
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