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Example sentences for: detain

How can you use “detain” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

But there’s little to detain a visitor and no attractive accommodations.
For reasons that need not detain us here, some years ago I happened to be visiting the translation section of a large publishing company in darkest Hertfordshire, England, and I became involved in conversation with one of the employees, a charming young French translator.
New golf courses are being built in the area, but there’s little else to detain visitors.
The Hispanic agents often come in for special pleading in Spanish and failing that, special abuse, from those they detain.
[Independent Counsel Starr uses Tripp to detain Monica.