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For WARDEN, below is one of 14 sentences:
The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the cure, and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other.

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 Meanings and Examples of WARDEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
warden
 n.  keeper; guardian; watchman; officer who keeps or guards
Classic Sentence:
1  That worthy priest was the brother of a warden of Saint-Sulpice, who had often observed this man gazing at his child, and the scar on his cheek, and the large tears in his eyes.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
2  That man, who had so manly an air, yet who was weeping like a woman, had struck the warden.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
3  The warden had mentioned the circumstance to the cure, and both had paid the colonel a visit, on some pretext or other.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER II—ONE OF THE RED SPECTRES OF THAT EPOCH
4  I prefer it to the stall to which I have a right, in my capacity of warden.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE UTILITY OF GOING TO MASS, IN ORDER TO BECOM...
5  Feeling that he must be something in the State, he had chosen the career of warden.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—M. MABEUF
6  But us lifers--us murderers, the warden he said the army didn't want us.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
7  But I said to the warden I ain't like most lifers.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
8  In a few years, when he grew stouter, he would be made a warden.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
9  I was received very kindly by the warden, and went for many days to the academy.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V.
Example Sentence:
1  When the warden learned that several inmates were planning to escape, he took steps to balk their attempt.
2  The warden was always accommodating in allowing visitors in.
3  If we are to improve conditions in this prison, we must first get rid of the sadistic warden.
4  He was a warden at the local parish church.
5  The warden of the prison signed the release.