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cellmate

[ sel-meyt ]

noun

  1. a fellow inmate in a prison cell.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cellmate1

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Example Sentences

Darwin previously reported his former cellmate after he insulted him on several occasions.

I maintain only a certain closeness with my cellmate, a heterosexual Cuban in whom I do not have much confidence.

With nowhere to social distance, his cellmate eventually tested positive.

As he described the case of his cellmate Ibrahim Dewari, the determination to help those he left behind resurfaced.

She has reportedly been getting to know a new cellmate, Moldovian native Angela Biriukova, herself a celebrity criminal in Italy.

She refuses to discuss her current cellmate, also an American, except to say they are friends.

Ferrell: We eat our lunch in our cell, so the answer would be my cellmate.

Ferrell: My former cellmate, Jerzy Mitchell, was phenomenal.

For cellmate he had Barthlet Green, who parted from him only to meet an agonizing death in the flames, as an arch-heretic.

He had awakened and found his undesired cellmate missing, and the window was clear.

He even came to have a sort of sense of comradeship for his cellmate.

But for a long time he could not get used to the snoring of his cellmate.

His cellmate, by answering to the name of "Mirov," had given away their nationality!

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