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
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
Every morning Marie-Laure wakes and dresses and follows her father through Entrance #2 and listens to him greet the night guard and the warder.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
