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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Last month, a Central Booking detainee was found dead and his death was ruled a homicide.
  — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2022
• In the months that followed, the detainee population dropped to the lowest levels in more than a decade.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
• The detainee was then transported to a hospital to have the drugs removed.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• Then, as the pageant neared, Sabit learned that after the performances any detainee who was a student would be let go.
  — David Remnic, The New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2021
• Biden also objected to language barring the use of funds made available by the bill to transfer detainees held at Guantánamo Bay into the United States.
  — Alex Gangitano, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024
• There are now 27 detainees at Guantanamo, 15 of whom are eligible for a transfer out of the detention facility.
  — Luis Martinez, ABC News, 18 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Jan 2025