How to Use detain in a Sentence

detain

verb

• They were detained by the police for questioning.
• He claimed he had been illegally detained.
• Unexpected business had detained her.
• The bullet that killed her came from the apartment unit next door where officers found and detained Mata.
  — Bianca Moreno-Paz, Austin American-Statesman, 18 Nov. 2024
• The government doesn't dispute that it's required by law to detain those immigrants.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• Any increase in efforts to detain and deport people will also likely require more places to detain them.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 14 Nov. 2024
• And his travel to the Middle East, as alleged in court documents, is not reason enough to detain him.
  — Robert Legare, CBS News, 12 Apr. 2022
• Two states say the law requires Biden to send migrants to Mexico if officials can't detain them.
  — John Fritze, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2022
• Less than an hour later, the Russians returned to detain Ms. Yurinova.
  — Yaroslav Trofimov, WSJ, 26 Apr. 2022
• But Congress has never allocated enough money to detain the number of people affected.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• Abbott gave guard members unusual authority last year to detain and arrest migrants, but most on the mission are assigned to observation posts.
  — CBS News, 27 Apr. 2022
• Since the media blackout, the Indian government has used broad public safety laws to detain thousands of critics and journalists.
  — Safina Nabi, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Apr. 2022
• Defense lawyers told the court that immediately after the two men’s arrests, prosecutors had suggested the government would not seek to detain them.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 12 Apr. 2022
• The man came out of the apartment just before 5 a.m. and was detained by deputies.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 10 Apr. 2024
• Hochberg said Walls was attempting to detain the man for the crime and denied that Walls choked the man.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 31 Dec. 2022
• One of them joked that I might be detained once inside.
  — TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
• Four were detained in Georgia in late April, along with more than 150 books.
  — Rachel Donadio, New York Times, 1 May 2024
• Nearly two-thirds of those who are detained are Black teens.
  — Molly Parker, ProPublica, 8 Nov. 2023
• Smotrich, then 25, was detained and questioned for weeks.
  — Mark Mazzetti Jonathan Davis Anna Diamond David Mason, New York Times, 16 May 2024
• Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
  — TIME, 2 May 2024
• The suspects were stopped in a Winn-Dixie parking lot and detained.
  — Louis Casiano, Fox News, 3 July 2024
• Hours before the game, he was detained along with a few of his Dolphins teammates.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 9 Sep. 2024
• The footage then depicts a struggle that starts as Blasingame attempts to detain Black.
  — Teresa Moss, Arkansas Online, 9 June 2022
• That these civilians took it upon them on their own to take him in, to detain him, to stop his movements.
  — Justin Raystaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• Officers, gun in hand, then approach and detain the man.
  — Li Cohen, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
• Tens of thousands more are detained each month at the southern border trying to join them.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• Two other juveniles were stopped and detained in the 1400 block of Southwest Bertha Blvd.
  — oregonlive, 9 Apr. 2023
• Officers in the area saw a large group of people exit the restaurant and detained one person.
  — Christian Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• The accused will continue to be detained until the court approves their sureties.
  — Rebecca Rosenberg, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2023
• In Haiti, dozens have been detained, but after nearly two years, there have been few, if any, other charges.
  — Amanda Coletta, Washington Post, 2 June 2023

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024