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How to use chain gang in a sentence

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George Clooney and some cheeky chappies escape from a '30s chain gang and sing Deep South ballads while having misadventure after misadventure.
Of greater significance was the parole system, introduced in 1908, the same year as convict leasing was abolished and the chain gang introduced.
Following his arrest, he is tried, convicted, and sentenced to one year on a prison chain gang in a distant parish.
Alex Lichtenstein sees an essential continuity between the convict lease system and the chain gang in Georgia.
Then we were given some prisoner's uniforms, very similar to the uniforms a prison chain gang used to wear here.
After 19 years on the chain gang, Jean Valjean finds that the ticket-of-leave he must display condemns him to be an outcast.
In fact, I feel like I've been off of work for about a year, and that year was spent working on a chain gang or holding my breath underwater.
The warden of prisons was contacted for information on the convict's behavior on the chain gang, or in a few cases on the State Farm.
Joker Jackson and Noah Cullen are two convicts chained together in the back of a truck heading for work on a chain gang.
The film concerns two escapees from a chain gang, one black and one white, who are forced to cooperate with one another to avoid capture.
We would say applying community standards, one would expect the community would be unaware of that other than seeing a television report of a chain gang in Georgia.
It is like working on a chain gang in the hot sun, all day long.
By his own account, he also survived two shootings and spent time on a chain gang.
In the 1967 movie it was said by the chain gang captain to prisoner Paul Newman just before clubbing him senseless.
So you can, for instance, legally gamble 24 hours a day in Nevada and New Jersey, but try to open a casino in some southern states and you may find yourself on the chain gang.
They were to be taken away to the chain gang in a week or so.
When he ripped open his shirt to show the brand from the chain gang, it got applause.
I say we use the chain gang system for lifers, and only lifers.
Survival on a southern chain gang is the main theme of this book in which a prolific escaper pits himself against authority in a constant test of wills.
The quarks have been compared to prisoners on a chain gang.
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And I discover she is entertaining a convict who escaped from a chain gang.
In some states they put them in a chain gang or jail too, when they catch them.
The other didn't say, but quick intuition told her that son had gone to the chain gang.
This in course of time caused such indignation that the practice of putting men-of-warsmen in the chain gang was discontinued.
Sadler turned away, depressed, and looked at the chain gang in the Plaza.
Sadler said nothing, but looked down at the chain gang below.
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