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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a jail cell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small room in a prison where a person is confined.
Example: "After the trial, the defendant was led away to a jail cell, awaiting sentencing."
Alternatives: "a prison cell" or "a detention cell".
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Grab a jail cell.
"It's a jail cell".
Executives never see a jail cell.
"I will never see the inside of a jail cell.
"Last year, I spent Thanksgiving inside a jail cell.
Manning rotting in a jail cell," he said.
Monsignor Vallejo Balda remains in a jail cell in the Vatican.
Despite his fervent protests, Gates spent the next several hours in a jail cell.
She went through most of her life, she says, straddling a jail cell and a grave.
Two immediately turned their guns on themselves; the third hanged himself in a jail cell.
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He spent a week in a jail cell so overcrowded that there was nowhere to sleep.
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