internment
noun
in·tern·ment
in-ˈtərn-mənt 
ˈin-ˌtərn-
plural internments
: the act of interning someone or the state of being interned
His parents had never told him about the exclusion laws, or the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the subject had not come up in his textbooks.—
Timothy Egan
Timothy EganEven in the midst of betrayal and the resulting alienation experienced in the internment, there exists the unnegotiable state of human bonds and possibility for reconciliation.—Fumitaka Matsuoka
Fumitaka Matsuoka… an American who spent World War II with his parents in an internment camp.—Philip Siekman
Philip SiekmanExamples of internment in a Sentence
the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II is one of the more shameful chapters in United States history
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None of the internment camp players made it to Major League Baseball, but George Omachi, who played for the Denson All-Stars at the Jerome War Relocation Center in Denson, Arkansas, eventually became a scout for the league.
—Rachel Ng, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
More than 100,000 people of Japanese decent were sent to internment camps, which the federal government formally apologized for in 1988.
—Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
The law has been used just a handful of times in the past, most recently as the legal basis for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
—Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 21 Mar. 2025
One recently invoked authority, the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, was last used to justify the internment of 120,000 Japanese in World War II, approximately 80,000 of whom were U.S. citizens.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
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Rachel Ng, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2025
More than 100,000 people of Japanese decent were sent to internment camps, which the federal government formally apologized for in 1988.
—Nicole Brown Chau, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2025
The law has been used just a handful of times in the past, most recently as the legal basis for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
—Rebecca Beitsch, The Hill, 21 Mar. 2025
One recently invoked authority, the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, was last used to justify the internment of 120,000 Japanese in World War II, approximately 80,000 of whom were U.S. citizens.
—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 19 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for internment
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“Internment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/internment. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.
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