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
The warder was a former nun called Pat Cairns, who had fallen in love with Hindley.
From The Guardian • Oct. 2, 2018
They were quite small children, the youngest—the one to whom the warder gave the biscuits—being a tiny little chap, for whom they had evidently been unable to find clothes small enough to fit.
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
There was a warder behind each of us, and I decided I would simply gloss over what she had said, and mumbled, “Ah, well, Ma, it is nothing.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
