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in jail

a. in a jail, as a prisoner.

Usage examples of "in jail".

Every day he would ask, and we thought that he had give up, that maybe going to them churches or being in jail again had reconciled him like it had on that night when Milly was born.

Good Lord, you could spend the rest of your lives in jail if this is what I think it is.

But I know they didn't like the way he was getting after them, for they knew that, sooner or later, he might sue them and possibly put one or more of them in jail for fraud.

Fifty bucks and a week in jail for standing on a corner and acting curious.