cellmate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of cellmate
Example Sentences
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But as portrayed by Mr. Gifuni and co-written by Mr. Bellocchio, Tortora is also kind and discreet: Asking one cellmate what his crime was, the young man says, “I helped my mother.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
He and his Nigerian cellmate were also persuaded by the Kremlin's arguments to fight Ukraine.
From Barron's • Jan. 30, 2026
He embodies movie-obsessed gay prisoner Luis Molina, who is falling for his revolutionary cellmate played by Diego Luna.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025
Coincidentally, that brother-in-law was the cellmate of a man named James Earl Ray.
From Slate • Dec. 1, 2025
A decade earlier in the underground prison, Shin’s aging cellmate had dared to talk about food outside the camp.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
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