How to Use internment in a Sentence

internment

noun

• Later, Takei's family was shipped by train to an internment camp in Arkansas, one of 10 such camps in the U.S.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 3 Nov. 2024
• After the war, most of the locals were placed in internment camps.
  — Monica Miller, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
• From there, a hearse brings the coffin to Windsor for internment.
  — Time, 19 Sep. 2022
• The rest of the family was shipped off to an internment camp in Poston, Ariz., during the war.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
• Of the thousands of internment camps the Nazis constructed, Terezin was unique.
  — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• Mel and Josephine have been married 61 years, but this is the first time Josephine has been in Arkansas since her internment.
  — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2023
• In 1941, the Kaminskys were arrested and sent to Drancy, an internment camp near Paris that was a way station to the death camps.
  — Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
• When his father, James, was 7 and living in Washington, Tad told me, he was sent to an internment camp.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• This is not the first time the former commander-in-chief has called for the internment of the homeless as a means of solving a problem plaguing cities across the country.
  — Matthew Medsger Boston Herald (tns), al, 20 Apr. 2023
• Japan was thought of as the enemy, with internment camps and everything.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
• Bolton also claimed that Trump had encouraged Xi to go ahead with building Uyghur internment camps in Xinjiang.
  — Chad De Guzman, TIME, 11 Sep. 2024
• That there were politicians making concerted efforts to lock them up in internment camps.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
• Tamaki’s parents – natives of the San Francisco Bay Area – were also in an internment camp.
  — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 18 June 2023
• The Indigenous Aleuts were forcibly evacuated by the government and shipped to internment camps.
  — Susan Portnoy, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
• The pastor also compared how transgenders were treated in the U.S. to the Holocaust and Japanese internment camps later on in the message.
  — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
• There are exhibits on the Aleutian campaign, as well as a timeline showing the evacuation and internment of the Unangan people.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
• Many Witnesses fled to neighboring Mozambique, where they were held in internment camps.
  — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
• To Shibutani, who had spent the war imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp in California, rumor was more of a verb than a noun, a collective process of making sense of the world.
  — science.org, 30 Oct. 2024
• The heroism of the lone hero in unspoiled wilderness is replaced by the sense of a place marked by absence: the expulsion and internment of Native Americans; the exclusion of would-be immigrants.
  — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
• His father, with his parents and siblings, had been confined to Japanese internment camps.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2022
• China has built mass internment camps in the Xinjiang province, where most Uyghurs live, and more than a million Uyghurs (as well as other religious minorities) have been detained in the last few years.
  — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
• The government would need to build large internment camps, and, in the event that Congress refused to appropriate the money required, the President would have to divert funds from the military.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
• During my internment at Auschwitz I was assigned to sorting the belongings of fellow prisoners who were sent to the gas chambers that included clothing, shoes and false teeth.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
• Many were intercepted, their passengers sent to internment camps in Cyprus.
  — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
• During this time, China faced rising foreign opprobrium for its internment camps in Xinjiang and its crackdown on protests in Hong Kong.
  — Tyler Jost, Foreign Affairs, 27 June 2024
• Bertolt Brecht jots an entry into his journal about the internment of Japanese Americans.
  — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
• He was born in China and returned there to serve as a missionary teacher after the Olympics, mostly remaining in the Asia until his death in a Japanese internment camp 20 years later.
  — George Ramsay, CNN, 19 July 2024
• Black residents who had not been killed were rounded up, ridiculed and marched at gunpoint to internment camps by law enforcement, where they were held captive subject to a White employer’s retrieval.
  — Suzette Malveaux, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
• Mr Trump signed a bill that imposes sanctions on Chinese officials who were responsible for the Uighurs’ internment.
  — The Economist, 20 June 2020
• The sweeping work presents Minidoka, an internment camp in Idaho where the Japanese American artist was incarcerated for two years in the early 1940s.
  — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024