Sentence examples for like a penitentiary from inspiring English sources

Outside, the motorway hotel squats like a penitentiary (in the early evening, the Polish receptionist is in negotiations with a large, half-naked man who is demanding an extra duvet).

The head coaching job at Texas Agriculture and Military was not the most sought after in the country; as Mr. Dent wrote of the all-male, all-military institution, "It looked like a penitentiary, boasted the color scheme of a grocery bag and possessed all of the glamour of a stock show".

"Because the worn sentences that I used like so many other people, though true, seemed now to be something else: like the walls of a penitentiary that I built around a reality I do not want to know".

While entering the school building I feel like I am entering a penitentiary.

Christopher Beach, the center's director, described the 283,000-square-foot brown brick building before the renovations as institutional, "cold, like a state penitentiary," and unappealing to audiences.

The archives are housed at the Lecumberri Palace, a fortress-like structure in Mexico City opened by President Porfirio Díazin as a penitentiary in 1900.

When I'm halfway through one, I feel like I'm serving a life sentence at a penitentiary.

He commented: "I'm talking about my experiences of walking into a penitentiary that I would see in a movie like Shawshank Redemption, because it was an old prison.

I need to build a taller fence to keep out the deer, but I don't like that penitentiary look.

Putting "Julius Caesar" in a penitentiary isn't entirely new.

The structure has continued to function as a penitentiary in the 21st century.