behind bars
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.39 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "There is one kind of prison where the man is behind bars, and everything that he desires is outside; and there is another kind where the things are behind the bars, and the man is outside."
- "Some 460,000 Americans are behind bars for drug offenses--a tenfold increase over 1980."
- "Leading Jordanian exponents of the Salafi-jihadi world view, such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, are now behind bars or silent, fearing arrest by the powerful mukhabarat secret police."