How to Use detention in a Sentence

detention

noun

• The jail is only used for brief detentions.
• He got detention for being late to class.
• They both got three detentions this year.
• Booking photos showed the suspect battered and bruised, ostensibly as part of his detention by civilians at the venue.
  — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 28 Nov. 2022
• Instead, their hands were cuffed, their feet shackled and they were flown to remote immigration detention centers in rural Louisiana.
  — Miriam Jordan, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2022
• Sausedo told a judge during a detention hearing for one of the defendants that the group moved the drugs across the border in buckets purporting to contain construction material like drywall mud.
  — Alex Riggins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Nov. 2022
• The detention of the two activists is a sign of the times.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• The third bit, of course, leans into a school/detention joke.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2023
• The detention had been extended in August through at least Nov. 30, the press service of the court said at the time.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• My team had been told I’d been transferred from detention but didn’t know when or where.
  — Brittney Griner, TIME, 3 May 2024
• That youth is due back in court for a detention hearing on May 15 and also may be tried as an adult.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
• And now Guo will spend the night in jail, after pleading not guilty and consenting to detention.
  — Bob Van Voris, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
• Why is there such a strong reaction to Khan’s detention?
  — Riazat Butt, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
• Every old farm field, railroad right of way, and shopping center detention basin is chock full of the stinky trees.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2024
• His detention of about two years was the longest for an American.
  — Time, 19 July 2023
• The two staffers may be a combination of one deputy and one detention deputy, but never two unarmed deputies.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2023
• The protests in Iran, sparked by the Sept. 16 death of a 22-year-old woman after her detention by the country’s morality police, weigh heavy on her.
  — Robert Scheer, The Indianapolis Star, 5 Dec. 2022
• More than a million have been sent to detention centers, forced to denounce Islam and swear fealty to Xi and the party.
  — Jon Gambrell, ajc, 9 Dec. 2022
• His wife, Vida, also a U.S. citizen, was in Iran at the time of his detention and was barred from leaving the country.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• However, while still living abroad to avoid detention, she was cleared in March.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 31 May 2024
• At a preschool carnival, the two joke about having been to juvenile detention over the summer.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• Soto was hired by the Sheriff’s Department in 1998 as a detentions and court services deputy.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
• The judge then raised the issue of how to proceed with a detention hearing with Edwards' mental fitness in question.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2023
• The state will now instead pay 75% of those costs, but still cover only 50% of the cost of detention and longer-term residential placement.
  — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
• Last month, a Moscow court refused to hear an appeal against his pre-trial detention.
  — Darya Tarasova, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• Mexico now has the largest migrant detention system in the hemisphere.
  — TIME, 9 Apr. 2024
• His detention is expected to last util at least July 2, according to the court.
  — Tanya Stukalova, ABC News, 16 May 2024
• Finally, agents showed up and led the Chinese men, along with others, to a Border Patrol bus waiting to take them off to detention.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024
• Seemingly undeterred, prosecutors have said the video and other evidence is strong enough to warrant Combs’ continued pretrial detention.
  — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 21 Nov. 2024
• The operation would also demand lightning-speed expansion of the immigration court systems and detention facilities.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 21 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024