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How to use jailer in a sentence

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It's no longer the quiet voice of a caregiver, but the cutting reprimand of a jailer.
Tina explains that turnkey archaically means jailer and holder of the keys.
Upon processing me, the jailer joked that I had just missed juvenile detention.
Like a jailer who throws you into a prison cell while slipping you the key, Europe simultaneously gave the world despotism and freedom.
It was akin to a jailer wielding a set of keys before locking you in your cell.
Does the low profile assumed by the former head of Yukos mean that he entered into a secret agreement with his jailer?
He declined to give his name and insisted his jailer was treating him like his mother would.
His confederates steal the horse in question from a jailer who is keeping it for evidence and substitute it with another animal painted to look identical.
In order to reach them, Carvajal inscribed a message on the core of an alligator pear, hid it in a melon, and asked the jailer to bring the fruit to his relatives.
Part of the reason for this is that the therapeutic relationship is tainted by the assessor being also the person's jailer.
It is these people who carry out the execution of judicial mandates and who play the part of jailer.
He says that, when he was taken from the courtroom, the jailer wouldn't jail him, because he'd seen the Roses play.
Turkey remained the world's leading jailer of journalists in 2013, with 40 known to have been in prison at the end of last year.
One day it happens that a careless jailer leaves his keys in the doors of this menagerie, and the wild beasts rampage with savage roars through the horrified town.
A jailer though who cuffs himself to his prisoner for thirty-six long years is himself no longer a free man.
Iran has been described by press freedom organizations as the biggest jailer of journalists in the world.
She was trapped in a prison and her jailer refused to release her.
A jailer cuffing his wrist to that of a prisoner for an hour or two is a matter of routine.
Yoritomo enlivened his rustication by seducing the daughter of his jailer, Itō Sukechika.
Perhaps one of his collaborators was the Saint's jailer, the man who later discovered, according to hagiographic writers, to be his uncle.
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Examples from Classical Literature
But if you're going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who's really on the ball.
It was then that the jailer had handed him the prisoner's letter for Dionysia.
Next day we were brought to Launceston, where Captain keat delivered us to the jailer.
He takes one arm and the jailer the other, and together they support the inebriate to his cell.
His right hand continued to hang above the gun he had taken from the jailer.
To know and to feel that they regard themselves as your prisoners, and you as their jailer?
He took the breastpin from the table and handed it to the jailer.
He realized that the sawfish had freed him from his dreadful jailer.
This story would not be believed by the head jailer at Sing Sing.
With these words, the humpbacked jailer ran off to the wine-shop.
The jailer went out, and returned in an instant with a corporal and four soldiers.
The greaser made such a disturbance that the jailer let him keep it.
And then the brown hand of her jailer closed over her mouth.
The jailer pointed with his bunch of keys to a cell before him.
Rudabaugh had just broken jail at Las Vegas, and had killed his jailer.
Adverse destiny, in his case, took the shape of an Anglo-French jailer.
What had become of the jailer and the guards, Theseus never knew.
As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician.
His captor was Burton Duff, the jailer, as white as death and bearing upon his brow the livid mark of the iron bar.On a table in the corridor lay the dead body of Burton Duff.
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