jailbird
Example Sentences
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Costume designer Maya Edmond dresses Big Ant thematically: white tees when he’s trying to be good, black duds when his demons are winning and comic book-y jailbird stripes during his pivotal teenage arrest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was jailbird.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Tony Sirico, a one-time jailbird who achieved fame as mobster Paulie “Walnuts” Gualtieri in “The Sopranos,” died Friday, his brother the Rev. Robert Sirico said on Facebook.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 9, 2022
Santa’s delight at meeting jailbird Warwick Davis, whom he naively mistakes for an elf, is brilliantly handled.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 18, 2016
He truly believed that even a jailbird has a constitutional right to go on television.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
