How to Use cellmate in a Sentence

cellmate

noun
  • His cellmates had to bang on the door to ask for a nurse.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 17 Jan. 2025
  • His cellmate called his name, telling him to turn on the TV.
    — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 24 June 2021
  • When the new cellmate says the wrong thing, his head swiftly hits the concrete.
    — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Try asking your cellmate, in a friendly way, to keep the noise down.
    — Marc Philippe Eskenazi, The New Yorker, 7 Jan. 2023
  • The staff was aware that Epstein was alone but did not take steps to assign him a new cellmate.
    — Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2023
  • He was killed in a Texas prison by a cellmate in 2023, officials said.
    — Christina Coulter, Fox News, 18 May 2024
  • Leon Howard was only 16 when he was sentenced to prison for 10 years and heard this from his cellmate.
    — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 16 Jan. 2022
  • The cellmate claims Gray told him there was plastic sheeting laying on the floor.
    — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Christie Smith, her former cellmate, says Smith paid her to procure drugs.
    — Greg Hanlon, PEOPLE.com, 9 July 2021
  • His cellmate taught him the basic stitches and how to read a crochet pattern.
    — Kunlyna Tauch, Harper's BAZAAR, 17 Aug. 2023
  • No one knew where his body was, but the family believed the cellmate’s account.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Another man described the death of his friend and cellmate, who had collapsed in between a set of bunk beds.
    — Kelly Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
  • Jean-Pierre said her son, 33, has lost a lot of weight, is forced to share a bucket with cellmates to relieve himself and is nursing a swollen foot.
    — DÁnica Coto, ajc, 8 June 2023
  • His cellmate was a New York man who was serving a 30-month sentence on a gun possession charge.
    — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 11 Dec. 2022
  • Officials did not release the cellmate’s name or share Chemirmir’s cause of death.
    — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 19 Sep. 2023
  • He would often be awoken in the night by his cellmates defecating.
    — Nico Lang, Them, 26 July 2024
  • His cellmate has been charged in his death, which was ruled a homicide by strangulation.
    — Angela Roberts, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2023
  • His lawyers said Von Staich is now free of symptoms, but his cellmate still suffers from fevers, coughing and other signs of the disease.
    — Bob Egelko, SFChronicle.com, 17 Aug. 2020
  • Deputies said one cellmate told authorities that Inaru brought up the plot every day.
    — Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025
  • The cellmate of the deceased has been arrested and charged with murder, according to a news release.
    — Madison Smalstig, The Indianapolis Star, 20 June 2022
  • This past January, 24-year-old Brandon Yates was tortured to death by a cellmate.
    — Kelly Davis, The Mercury News, 23 Dec. 2024
  • No one answered except for a former cellmate who began to sob.
    — Vivian Yee, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2022
  • But when Epstein’s cellmate was transferred out of his cell on the morning on Aug. 9, no action was taken, and Epstein was left alone in his cell.
    — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 27 June 2023
  • Shortly after sending the letter, the cellmate was transferred to MacDougall prison in Suffield, Conn.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Prisons that had been built by the shah filled to many times their capacity, such that cellmates had to take turns sleeping because there was not enough room to lie on the floor.
    — Laura Secor, Foreign Affairs, 6 Dec. 2013
  • The victim who reported her car stolen gave police the full name of the alleged thief, who turned out to have been a cellmate of Gaines in 2012 at the federal prison in Sheridan.
    — oregonlive, 11 May 2022
  • Deputies say cellmate Kevin Barnes ambushed Geffrard for more than 20 minutes in an attack that was captured on video.
    — Devoun Cetoute, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Jones’ cellmate yelled, while other inmates tried to get the attention of officers, the lawsuit says.
    — Jeanine Santucci, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Investigators then spoke with the cellmate, who explained the plot.
    — Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Nigh’s two cellmates are alleged to have helped him into a ceiling chase, which is a space above a ceiling that often houses ducts, and covering for him.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 29 Jan. 2025

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