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Discover LudwigThe phrase "send to jail" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used when referring to the act of incarcerating someone as a punishment for a crime. Example: "The judge decided to send the defendant to jail for five years."
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"These weren't the kind of men you send to jail," one of the judges explained, in reference to the murderer and his co-defendant (who held Chin down in a parking lot as he was beaten with a baseball bat until his skull cracked).
This became onerous, and degenerated into the oppressive and dangerous practice of furnishing these writs, signed in blank, to any member of the bar, who is authorized, on his own ipse dixit, to attach property, arrest the person and send to jail, unless a bail bond is speedily obtained, without incurring any accountability whatever.
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Adjudged guilty and sent to jail.
Very few are sent to jail.
Some of the trespassers were sent to jail.
"The owners should be held responsible and sent to jail".
It prevented him from being indicted and sent to jail.
Gross was convicted and sent to jail for four years.
All 12 of us were sent to jail.
"My family members were sent to jail," she said.
He lost his temper, and was sent to jail.
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