prisoner
Example Sentences
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Pressure is growing on the Venezuelan interim government to free the remaining political prisoners being held in the country.
From BBC
On Jan. 21 the U.S. ambassador to the Organization of American States estimated that Venezuela was holding about 1,000 political prisoners.
But those prisoner transfers have not eased tensions on the U.S.-Mexico border where cartel drones regularly fly into U.S. airspace, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
From Los Angeles Times
Cooling their heels in a Venetian jail in 1755, Giacomo Casanova and the prisoner in the cell above him contrived one of the more imaginative escapes in the annals of criminology.
His party hails him as "one of the youngest prisoners of war".
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
