Delay
Delay verb - To move or act slowly.
Jail
Jail verb - To put in or as if in prison.
How words are described
| old | old delay | old jail |
| high | high delay | high jail |
| normal | normal delay | normal jail |
| small | small delay | small jail |
| Other adjectives: actual, infamous, digital. | ||
Common collocations
| times | delay times | jail times |
Both words in one sentence
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The last shot in the remake of Ocean's Eleven shows Ocean, free from jail and reunited with his girl, driving past the camera and seemingly off into the sunset, but after a fairly long delay, we are passed by another car which seems to be following them, driven by two mooks of the Big Bad.
Source: The End... Or Is It?
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Jail and Delay. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/delay/jail
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