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cell block

or cell·block

[ sel-blok ]

noun

  1. a unit of a prison consisting of a number of cells.


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Example Sentences

This was the cause for his arrest and nine months in solitary confinement in Cell Block 209 of Evin Prison in 2006.

The Daily Pic: In a show called "Cell Block", the New York artist builds us a dungeon.

Rick is forced to strike a deal with the men and help clear out a cell block for them in exchange for half their food.

Other voices on the cell-block took up the cry, shouting out names, too, shouting out obscenities.

Mertaan smiled coldly and said, "There is another of your kind in the cell block."

We'd walked the whole length of the cell-block and they hadn't answered.

They were marched out under heavy guard and lined up at the iron door that separated the cell block from the main Arena.

And the seeming miracle of Naia North's escape from a cell block now passed from fantasy to the factual.

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