Sentence examples for the pran from inspiring English sources
With Venezuelan prison guards limiting their energies to patrolling the perimeter, the "pran" becomes a de facto dictator behind bars.
Better to avoid places like Uribana, where the pran gets his kicks from watching inmates fight each other with knives, or La Planta and El Rodeo, where gang fights have escalated into all-out shooting wars with state authorities.
If you ever find yourself on the wrong side of the law in Venezuela, I hope you end up in a place like Tocorón, where the pran is really most interested in making money.
In prisons where the gang hierarchy is disputed, the contest for the pran's throne can become very bloody very quickly.
Mr. Rodríguez also goes by the moniker "El Conejo" (The Rabbit), which explains the proliferation of the pran's trademark throughout the prison: paintings of the Playboy logo.
The Pran family had no time to gather anything.
Once in prison, normal inmates become something like hostages to the prans — tools and bargaining chips.
Vanna saw the gunmen entering her neighbor's home and forcing the Prans to leave.
Ms. DePaul now runs the Dith Pran Holocaust Awareness Project, which spreads word about the Cambodian genocide.
In many prisons, the wardens have ceded control to armed gangs run by strongmen called pranes — named for the sound, pran, that a machete makes when it hits concrete.
Cast out of Mr. Nath's house and into the street, Pran finds shelter in a whorehouse, only to be dressed up as a girl and sold to the nawab of Fatehpur, who offers him to a pedophilic British official.
