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

Black iron stairways lead to a catwalk across the back of the stage, while a soaring gridwork of prisonlike bars suggests a massive societal tension between the melodrama’s captives and captors.

From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2017

“There are prisonlike elements,” she said in 2013 at a forum with Laura Bush.

From New York Times • Nov. 5, 2016

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