Example sentences for: detention

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

  • The London Observer reported Sunday that Malaysia had "carried out a mass poisoning of defenceless refugees and migrant workers in detention camps" to "subdue them before repatriation."

  • Chilean novelist Isabel Allende writes that even if Augusto Pinochet is never tried in Spain, justice has finally been done to the former dictator: The European detention has caused "Pinochet's moral ruin.

  • But the recent detention and subsequent release of 39 male transvestite members of the Blue Diamond Society, a local organization that provides sexual health, HIV/AIDS, and advocacy services to sexual minorities, highlights the challenges faced by sexual minorities in Nepal [16].

  • Five different types--a geek, a richie, a screw-up, a jock, and a sullen arty girl--are forced to spend a Saturday in detention considering who they are.

  • The EOIR states that the provisions of the interim rule will require additional immigration judges, Immigration Court presence at existing INS detention centers, and construction of new Immigration Courts at new detention facilities.


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