Sentence examples for like prisons from inspiring English sources

They're not really like prisons – the refugees are technically not allowed out but there's no way to keep them inside the barbed wire.

Infection control measures to prevent the spread of MDR/XDR M. tuberculosis, especially in congregate settings like prisons and hospitals, are likely to be insufficient.

Yet airports are like prisons and hospitals.

"Those minimal places look like prisons to me," he said.

Detention centres, like prisons, are exempt from minimum wage legislation.

And this was sometimes true also of closed institutions like prisons.

The eight-hour train ride took them to a town where the hotels were like prisons.

Students must guide Surge in her spherical spaceship through maze-like prisons to rescue Fuzzies.

She said conditions resemble "maximum-security-like" prisons rather than what state and federal law dictate for conditions inside juvenile and treatment for children with disabilities.

We have not been back to Vietnam because of the traumatic experience of being put in POW-like prisons for trying to flee the country.

Now, 70 years later, in many congested cities around the world, cars have become more like prisons trapping motorists in traffic jams and preventing them from doing what they want to do.