Sentence examples for barren cell from inspiring English sources

He recently turned eighteen, which means he will likely serve his remaining months of solitary confinement in an adult unit — twenty-three hours a day in a barren cell.

We've all heard of people who can no longer sleep on a comfortable mattress after they've been freed from a barren cell, and have to bed down on concrete to get a good night's sleep.

And I can tell you that isolating a human being for years in a barren cell the size of a small bathroom is the cruelest thing you can do to a person.

The priest's barren cell in that film she saw recently about the passionate but impossible romance between a priest and a nun, for example, had slanted ceilings and a washstand with a towel bar and a basin that looked much like this one, though everything was white.

Next day, in a barren cell under the Washington courtroom where he is on trial for sedition, Naziphile George Sylvester Viereck Sr., already serving a one-to-five-year prison term as an unregistered agent of the Reich, listened stolidly as his wife broke the news to him.

Mandela spent 18 of his 27 years in a bleak, barren cell on Robben Island, off Cape Town's coast.

With his chair in the Oval Office barely warm, the 44th US President prepared to sign an executive order today to close the military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba - a complex of ad hoc court rooms, barren cells and razor wire widely regarded as a scar on the country's conscience - within a year.

Prisoners at Tamms spend 23 hours per day in barren cells with concrete slabs for beds.

blog again and again invite us to consider what is gained by confining someone to "barren, bathroom-sized" cells for vast mansions of time.

Spark's apps, including route guidance, won't work in a tiny town or barren wilderness with no cell service.

The barren, elevator-size isolation cells cut off the inmates from almost all human contact.