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jail cell

n. a room where a prisoner is kept [syn: cell, prison cell]

Usage examples of "jail cell".

It was as if Flint had never been here at allno mark, no scar to show that he had ever been in the jail cell.

Especially hard from a jail cell, where all you got was rumor and brief visits.

Then one of the chief witnesses against him, Peter La Tempa, died of poison in his jail cell.

Aware only of his own jail cell, of fetid air and hard concrete and the quivering tension of his own sweaty limbs, he had to calm his emotional storm before he could see anything.

When Dan Ousley heard that Liysa was holding court in her jail cell, he ordered a more restrained editing of her visitors list.

Langan was released from his Georgia jail cell (where he was serving time for robbing a Pizza Hut with Guthrie) and set up in a house in Ohio, where he was to assist the Secret Service in locating his old friend.

Now as he rides in the police car to his new private jail cell, he remembers the whole wisdom-tooth-extraction saga because of its many points in common with what he just went through emotionally with young America Shaftoe.

Beyond, a mouse's-eye view of a jail cell: concrete floor, toilet, sink, and a middle-aged felon in fine physical shape sleeping peacefully on Tony Rand's first periscope hole.

The jail cell tipped and the white chapel whirled, and they spun to­.

Two hours after he was sitting in his den watching a movie, he was half-dead in a jail cell three miles from his home.