brig

Example Sentences

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They like Wash more than Titch, whom they throw in the brig, but they are nice, relatively speaking.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 22, 2025

Shaw also declines to throw Riker and Picard in the brig, though he would be in the right to do so.

From New York Times • Feb. 23, 2023

He was intercepted mid-route by another ship, which returned him to the leaking brig he had tried to escape.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 2022

Together, we hacked a terminal, passed the brig override code across a room in a short game of telephone, and unlocked the door so that they could escape.

From The Verge • Feb. 25, 2022

Lem tried to slip ashore again, and sat out the rest of the storm in the brig.

From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham