political prisoner
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Playing a hard-line political prisoner in 1983 Argentina, his Valentin starts the film rejecting everything it stands for: romance, fantasy, overwhelming emotions.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
She herself is the daughter of a former defense minister who died in prison in 2021, and the sister of another political prisoner held for "terrorism."
From Barron's • Feb. 10, 2026
The latter of these books was written while Ngũgĩ was being held in a Nairobi jail as a political prisoner.
From BBC • Dec. 31, 2025
Luis Robles, 33 years old, a political prisoner in Cuba until October and now in exile in Spain, said, “The situation for ordinary Cubans is very hard.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 21, 2025
Another prisoner in his barracks had a red triangle, so he was a political prisoner who had opposed Hitler.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
