Example sentences for: detention

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

  • (It's thanks to the murky intervention of one of his dad's poker pals, a gangster, that he ends up there and not in juvenile detention.)

  • Recommendation: The United States should engage its friends to develop a common coalition approach toward the detention and humane treatment of captured terrorists.

  • Kang Kek Ieu has admitted to being "Duch," the director of the Tuol Sleng detention center in Phnom Penh, where at least 16,000 people were executed during the Khmer Rouge's 1975-79 "killing fields" reign of terror, the magazine said.

  • In the example of privately operated detention facilities, an illustrative case study might run the risk of oversimplifying a more complex situation.

  • 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.


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