What is "prisonlike"

Usage examples of "prisonlike".

Starting the next day, however, the very prisonlike prison described by Villamizar began to be transformed into a five-star hacienda with all kinds of luxuries, sports installations, and facilities for parties and pleasures, built with first-class materials brought in gradually in the false bottom of a supply van.

I supposed were factories and from windows of row upon row of prisonlike apartment buildings.

But the dormitories became prisonlike, controlled by rules and regulations.

I discreetly strolled to the far end of the room and stared out the tiny, prisonlike window.

The prisonlike aspect of older institutions was avoided at Spruce Crest.

The background was dominated everywhere by big, prisonlike factories, all of which appeared to be shut.

Through its prisonlike bars, the elevator provided a good view of each floor as it slowly rose.

She became completely unfeeling as though she was wrapped tightly in a prisonlike shell of her own.

Rosie remembered the dining room in the fifties, shabby and prisonlike, the waitresses ancient.

Several times she ended up in the hospital with pneumonia, and once she was put into a sanatorium for two months, during which my sister and I were sent to a Catholic orphanage, a grim prisonlike institution set in wintry fields of corn stubble that seemed infinitely bleak to city kids.

He thumbed it on, sent the white beam waving ahead, and the glare revealed a prisonlike wall on their left, with rough, stony ground underfoot.

There were several of the animals on the other side of a prisonlike cage door.

This was apparent to Doctor Leo Claig as he sat in an old rocker on the front porch of his prisonlike house.

Centuries had mellowed the edifice, taking away its prisonlike appearance.

Gloria suggested he put it in the wine store, which, having an iron grille for a door, added to the prisonlike grimness of the lower ground.