warder
Example Sentences
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“Lockdown was probably the oddest experience in my life,” says McGowran, who spent nearly 26 years in the Royal Air Force before becoming a yeoman warder.
From Washington Post • Jul. 8, 2021
Years ago as a gallery warder at the British Museum I would often choose an object as I patrolled, and extemporise a brief story from it.
From The Guardian • Oct. 30, 2019
After half-an-hour, he was ordered in by the warder, and, I suppose, punished.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2018
Her stories take the figure of the imprisoned “madwoman,” as found in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” or Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre,” and make her the warder of her own jail.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016
The warder had an extra sandwich, and he threw it on the grass near us and said, “Here.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
