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prisoner in English:

1. inmate inmate


The jail has 500 inmates.
The inmates in the prison were divided into two gangs.
Bank operates inside Peru's largest prison and is run entirely by inmates.
In prisons many of the inmates take drugs.
Women make up about 6 percent of all inmates in the U.S.
Yesterday morning one of the inmates of our mental hospital escaped unexpectedly.
Here, every inmate is confined alone to an individual cell
The inmate was doing time for a burglary conviction.

English word "prisoner"(inmate) occurs in sets:

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2. hostage hostage


The hostages were released this morning.
The terrorist let one hostage go, but kept the others captive.
Russia expresses regret for those lost in the hostage incident.
Two tourists were held hostage by terrorists.
There are no hostages or civilians currently at risk.
She was taken/held hostage by the gunmen.
The group are holding two western tourists hostage.
The terrorists took three people with them as hostages
My life has been taken hostage
The terrorists have seized 20 hostages and are threatening to kill one a day unless their demands are met.
It is hoped that the kidnappers will not carry out their threat to kill the hostages.
I sometimes thought of him as an authentic spirit who had been taken hostage by his own caricature, which he seemed increasingly powerless to escape.
He tried to brave it out while held as a hostage.

3. prison prison


Tom is in prison.
The man went to pieces when the judge said he would have to go to prison for life.
When I got out of prison, I couldn't find a job anywhere near my home since no one would hire an ex-con.
She stole a lot of money from him, so now she is in prison.
For the crime of first degree murder, this court hereby sentences you to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
He was freed early from prison on the condition that he promised to live with his parents.
Before I could protest, I was handcuffed and was on my way to prison.
It said that people could not play football in the future and that anyone who broke this law would be sent to prison.
All were imprisoned by the Allies after the war and later sentenced to death or given long prison terms for war crimes.
However, when I finally reached the castle I was thrown into this prison by the commander of the imperial guard.
The judge pronounced him "guilty", and now he must face the music of a sentence in prison.
Even though he had served his time in prison, the murderer was never quite condoned by the public for his crime.
The prisons in his country had good conditions.
The prison guards will strike from midnight in three days.
An interesting record is still preserved of the inhuman cruelties which were inflicted on this admirable young woman in the secret of the prison house where no eye pitied her and where no friendly hand composed her aching limbs.