How to Use detainee in a Sentence

detainee

noun

• 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
• One detainee was found to have been strip-searched 13 times.
  — Ana Faguy, baltimoresun.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• 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
• Visits Abu Ghraib prison in the wake of a detainee abuse scandal.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 30 June 2021
• Dominique was one of three detainees removed from the flight, but the only one charged.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
• Gilchrist said health care and detainee transfers fall under the purview of ICE.
  — Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2020
• 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
• The report alleged that a detainee died and there was a mumps outbreak.
  — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2020
• 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 this detainee said that Abu Ahmed was a courier for bin Laden, was somebody who was close to bin Laden.
  — CBS News, 16 Sep. 2020
• 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
• This story has been updated the Them to include the release of the detainees.
  — Lex McMenamin, Them, 5 Dec. 2024
• 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 release of detainees underscores the deep scars left by the Assad regime's reign of terror.
  — Aron Solomon, Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2024
• 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
• Military officials say the impact would depend on the scale of arrests and how long detainees remained in custody.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 22 Feb. 2025
• Without naming parties, the International Committee of the Red Cross raised objections about how the hostage and detainee releases were being carried out.
  — Johnatan Reiss, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2025

Last Updated: 19 Mar 2025