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.
• After a third law enforcement officer arrives, all three try to detain the man in a room.
  — Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News, 21 July 2022
• Hill returned to his vehicle as the officer returned outside to detain him.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 16 Aug. 2022
• Justices left in place a Texas judge’s order that says the government must detain and deport immigrants who have serious crimes on their record.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2022
• Wickremesinghe has put in place emergency measures that allow the army and police sweeping powers to question, detain and arrest people.
  — Muneeza Naqvi, BostonGlobe.com, 31 July 2022
• Blakely and several deputies testified that it’s common for law enforcement to handcuff and detain witnesses at crime scenes.
  — Ashley Remkus | [e-mail], al, 26 Aug. 2022
• Military commanders have the power to detain service members ahead of trial through a process known as pretrial confinement.
  — Vianna Davila, ProPublica, 18 Aug. 2022
• The truck driver flagged down a security officer, who helped detain Glover, according to an affidavit.
  — Dallas News, 30 Aug. 2022
• The criminal complaint filed in the case described a fracas that lasted as long as seven minutes and required the help of a fourth individual – a citizen – to detain the man.
  — Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 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
• 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
• LeFleur then instructed Baldwin to stop talking and stood next to him while he was detained.
  — NBC News, 10 July 2024
• The majority of the protesters were detained for up to two days at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the firm said.
  — Niha Masih, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• In the video, officers appeared to be forcibly detaining some men.
  — Samya Kullab and Elise Morton, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2024
• All the Palestinians interviewed by CNN were eventually released after being used as human shields, and the soldier said that those detained by his unit were also let go.
  — Mick Krever, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024