prisonlike
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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KAMPALA, Uganda—Fifteen migrants the U.S. deported to Cameroon in recent weeks are being held in prisonlike conditions at a secret detention facility, according to lawyers for some of the deportees.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
The reading room seats are hard; the walls are barred and prisonlike; the pencils bristle like shot arrows.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2019
It was based on Ken Kesey’s novel, a touchstone of the 1960s counterculture, about a rebellious gadfly’s efforts to survive inside a prisonlike mental hospital.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 14, 2018
Advocates fear the plan could put patients in prisonlike conditions, and that staff could feel less motivated to treat them if they can be isolated quickly.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 22, 2015
The spacious room was far from the prisonlike image his aunt Virginia had painted for him.
From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore
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