adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a condemned prisoner (= one who is going to be punished by being killed )
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There is an appeal process for condemned prisoners.
condemned cell
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
man
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At the top of the steps stood the condemned man with the rope around his neck.
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Pool simply coasted along, and Darlington, for all of their honest endeavour, played with the confidence of condemned men .
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All through the meal he picked at his food, while Peter ate heartily with a quip about being a condemned man .
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One man who was attendant to the condemned men said that cell 13 became like a church.
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The pinioned hands of the condemned man went suddenly white as the noose and the drop snapped his spinal column.
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Maura began walking towards them like a condemned man on his way to the gallows.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Chin spent the night locked in a jail cell with a condemned man.
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Here are the kitchens where the condemned prisoner's last meal was prepared.
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The state allows no communication with a condemned man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But once a man is condemned , danger is something as simple as power, and money is power.
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Council members condemned plans to make universities bid for public money based on the number of students they expected to teach.
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He had watched the prison officers putting the rope around the condemned man's neck.
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Like Jagger, like Rotten, he is condemned to live out its pantomime for ever.
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Needless to say, he fails, and she is condemned to be executed.
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She walked through, feeling like a condemned convict.
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The team even received some compensation in the event of a last-minute reprieve being granted to the condemned person.