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How to use behind bars in a sentence

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Even behind bars, Bruce instantly came to be known as the mighty king of puns and wordplay.
As you read this article, 15,000 destitute dads are spending time behind bars.
While behind bars, he takes up boxing at the urging of the warden and finds a new desire to actually do something with his life.
The first morning they visited the jailhouse, two prisoners were behind bars.
A burglar in adolescence, he was addicted to heroin and behind bars before reaching voting age.
You must feel angry that those people were constructively seeking to put you behind bars.
The builder was arrested shortly after 9am by two police officers who read him his rights before putting him behind bars.
Lee said he had been unaware that the rapper had made music and video recordings from behind bars.
I only hope that they catch up with him, and put him behind bars where he truly belongs.
He was given a life term for kidnap and other offences and has been behind bars for seven years.
Also, should prisoners who repeatedly commit crime spend a longer time behind bars simply because they're recidivists?
Boy racers face seeing their cars behind bars as part of a Maldon police crackdown on reckless driving.
The final sentence, however, rests with the judge and Beaney may still be put behind bars.
He served three years behind bars, two years on work release and two years on parole.
She cried and made obscene gestures as she was led from court to start three years and nine months behind bars.
It still doesn't change the fact that vicious, remorseless murderers are disgusting animals that deserve to rot behind bars.
They now face a long stay behind bars in Spain and, if convicted, a lengthy period in jail.
He insisted that he had problems adapting to society after spending so long behind bars.
All the sentences will run concurrently, giving him a total of three months behind bars.
They spent two years behind bars before they were granted asylum by the courts.
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Examples from Classical Literature
They are to be our assignment until every man of them is behind bars or in his grave.
Well, Pedro, the next time we see you I hope you are behind bars.
So far, I've managed to spend more time free than behind bars.
That man killed John Millinborn and I believe you can put him behind bars.
Five men found guilty of detonating bombs in Manama have each been sentenced to 30 years behind bars.
A THIEF whose hole-in-the-wall home raids wrecked Christmas for his victims is today beginning a three-and-a-half year sentence behind bars.
A POPULAR young huntswoman is facing time behind bars after pleading guilty to two burglaries, the Sunday Mercury can reveal.
A FORMER prison officer has been jailed for 12 months for selling stories about George Michael's time behind bars to The Sun newspaper.
A KILLER who once escaped a court cell using a shoelace is back behind bars after going on the run for a third time.
They had put him behind bars, as if he had been a wild beast, a thing without sense or reason, without rights, without affections, without feelings.
The Parole Board for Scotland's annual report this week revealed 227 out of the 909 lifers released since 1968 spent more than 14 years behind bars.
Around 200 were believed to be behind bars before the announcement by Ye Aung, a member of the government's political prisoner scrutiny committee.
Once behind bars Rick-Rick huss, of Robin Hood Road, was confronted with ngerprint and CCTV evidence that he had taken part in more overnight burglaries.
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