doing time in English

sitting in prison, serving a jail sentence

Use "doing time" in a sentence

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1. Paul was doing time for burglary.

2. They call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison

3. Bibi Besch was born in Vienna, Austria, to race car driver Gotfrid Köchert and actress Gusti Huber.She was a very busy supporting actress who had worked in television for over twenty years before being nominated for an Emmy Award as a supporting actress for Doing Time on Maple Drive (1992) and another in 1993 for a guest appearance on Northern Exposure (1990).