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
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
Moses, among his other duties, is also a warder, personally responsible for the care of two dozen psychiatric patients, who are among the most vulnerable inmates in the jail.
From The Guardian • May 28, 2015
But if we could hear a whisper quite clearly, so could the warder, who would yell, “Stilte in die gang!”
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
