calabooses Sentence Examples
- The sheriff locked the outlaws in the town's grimy calabooses.
- The calabooses were dark and cramped, with barely enough room to turn around.
- The prisoners banged on the calabooses' steel bars, desperate for a glimpse of daylight.
- The stench of sweat and fear permeated the calabooses, making it hard to breathe.
- The calabooses were a symbol of oppression and despair in the lawless town.
- The sheriff threatened to throw the troublemakers in the calabooses if they didn't mind their manners.
- Children dared each other to spend a night in the haunted calabooses.
- The new calabooses were more humane, with windows and running water.
- The town council debated abolishing the calabooses in favor of more modern detention methods.
- The calabooses had a long and storied history, having held countless outlaws, rebels, and innocent victims.
calabooses Meaning
calabooses
a local jail, jail
Synonyms & Antonyms of calabooses
Synonyms:
- training-schools
- holds
- cells
- guardhouses
- reform-schools
- labor-camps
- keeps
- gulags
- dungeons
- blocks
- tanks
- wards
- glasshouses
- stalags
- work-camps
- reformatories
- holes
- prison-camps
- hulks
Antonyms:
No weak antonyms found.
FAQs About the word calabooses
a local jail, jail
penitentiaries, prisons,jails, stockades, slams, bull pens, guardrooms, cans, pokeys, tolbooths
outsides,,
The sheriff locked the outlaws in the town's grimy calabooses.
The calabooses were dark and cramped, with barely enough room to turn around.
The prisoners banged on the calabooses' steel bars, desperate for a glimpse of daylight.
The stench of sweat and fear permeated the calabooses, making it hard to breathe.
