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
From time to time I could hear the deep voice of the warder on duty warning him to keep quiet.
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 next night, however, when the warder came to the window, Tefu strode up to the bars and said to him, “From now on I want my own tobacco. Just give it to me directly.”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
