Example sentences for: detained

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

  • In addition, we need to be sure that white collar criminals are not merely detained in so-called "country club" federal prison facilities for relatively short prison terms.

  • we strayed into a cool alcove, lingering where the pharmacopeia detained us--ephedra, belladonna, one small gray-barked tree without a label,

  • Now that the background material he sent to Congress has been released, the press has become interested in whether Linda Tripp doctored her tapes and whether Starr's agents and prosecutors improperly detained Lewinsky or misrepresented their treatment of her in the Jan.

  • He could face life in prison, but prosecutors will likely ask that he be detained in a juvenile facility until his sentence is reassessed at age 21.

  • Several terrorist operatives were detained by foreign governments, possibly disrupting operations in the Gulf and Italy and perhaps averting attacks against two or three U.S. embassies.


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