Sentence examples for doing time for from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Do time.

(UK) When someone is doing time, they are in prison.

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Except the part about doing time for embezzlement.

Dan White is doing time for tax evasion.

He is currently in a Nevada prison, doing time for armed robbery and kidnapping.

Later, his parents divorced, and his father ended up doing time for financial fraud.

Jack Nicholson plays Mac, a natural born troublemaker and backtalker doing time for statutory rape.

Some were prisoners, doing time for crimes that ranged from theft to manslaughter.

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Another has done time for assault.

He'd done time for burglary.

Little kids didn't do time for possession; parolees did.

Two of them did time for breaking locks.

He did time for robbing a Best Buy in 2001.

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