GAOL in a Sentence

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For GAOL, below is one of 6 sentences:
Poor old Clegg spent years in gaol before we discovered there was no proof it was his bullet that killed anyone.

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 Meanings and Examples of GAOL
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gaol
 n.  place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment
Classic Sentence:
1  And I heard she is mortally afraid of gaol, because she merits it so well.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
2  Yet I would rather die under my own roof than in a gaol.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IV. THE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERY
3  Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLE
4  All that we know who lie in gaol.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
5  Yet over him, as over every one, there hung poised the All-Saving Hand; and, an hour after his arrival at the prison, the doors of the gaol opened to admit Murazov.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Poor old Clegg spent years in gaol before we discovered there was no proof it was his bullet that killed anyone.