How to Use detainee in a Sentence

detainee

noun

• Then, as the pageant neared, Sabit learned that after the performances any detainee who was a student would be let go.
  — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Among the attendees was one detainee’s mother and another’s wife.
  — Jordan Levy, The New Republic, 27 Aug. 2021
• No question put to the Guantanamo detainees will change that or bring Eagleson closure.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2024
• Facebook page identified the detainee as Brent Cockrell.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 22 Aug. 2021
• He is being housed in a section designated for detainees needing special protection.
  — Doc Louallen, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2024
• That Boen deprived the victims of the right of a pretrial detainee to be free from the use of unreasonable force by a law enforcement officer.
  — Dale Ellis, Arkansas Online, 10 Aug. 2021
• Riverside County jails reported their highest detainee death count in decades in 2022, putting the jail system among the most lethal in the nation that year.
  — Christian Orozco, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2024
• The lawsuit alleges Breinholt’s civil rights were violated, including his right to be free from punishment as a pre-trial detainee.
  — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 Aug. 2021
• The handcuffed teenager was buckled into the front seat of Truong’s patrol vehicle because there was not a caged holding area for detainees in the back seat of that particular vehicle.
  — Shelly Bradbury, The Denver Post, 15 Nov. 2024
• Each group of detainees moved through the space as a unit.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• One detainee kicks the bars in a futile attempt to force the door open.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• At the time of Burham’s escape, the jail was housing 87 detainees.
  — Steve Almasy, CNN, 12 July 2023
• The newest detainee arrived in 2008; some of the men have been held for two decades.
  — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• Bains is the third Harris County Jail detainee to die in the first month of 2023 alone.
  — Michael Murney, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
• The photos showed the bodies of detainees with signs of torture.
  — Kareem Chehayeb and Ghaith Al-Sayed, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
• The fifth detainee had been on house arrest before the deal went down.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2023
• Dominique was one of three detainees removed from the flight, but the only one charged.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
• Even this year, some of the references toward to the end of the season spoke to the events of the early 2000s, like the Iraq War and the idea of the detainees and torture.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• If this were to happen, the detainees would have to be transferred back to jail, putting a swift end to their time on Pianosa.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• In Toga prison, guards beat and then shot two Tigrayan soldiers on Nov. 4, a detainee there said.
  — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
• And all these testimonies are coming out about the abuse of detainees.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
• Serving on the front lines seemed less risky than staying in prison, the detainees said in interviews with The New York Times.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• The group estimates that thousands of children may be among the detainees.
  — Hande Atay Alam, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
• In the video, the detainee appears to be handcuffed in the back of a police car, wearing a hospital gown.
  — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
• The jail detainee who died this week was found unresponsive in his cell around 4:20 p.m.
  — Blayne Alexander, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The vast majority of its detainees came from West Coast cities.
  — Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Last month the court heard a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee.
  — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2021
• Ghani also agreed to release 5,000 Taliban detainees as part of the agreement to end the conflict.
  — Dan Lamothe and Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Wiley claimed that the detainee in question was kin to one of his domestics.
  — Time, 29 July 2023
• One other detainee was being held at the barracks at the time of the man’s death, Procopio said.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024