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
• 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
• 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 vast majority of its detainees came from West Coast cities.
  — Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
• 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
• The detainee was then transported to a hospital to have the drugs removed.
  — Tesfaye Negussie, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2024
• The Kremlin's Peskov left a journalist's question about the treatment of the detainees unanswered.
  — Lidia Kelly and Philippa Fletcher, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• That money was part of a deal to release five American detainees who were held in Iran.
  — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• The arrests came after an attorney for the detainee released the video last week.
  — Sudhin Thanawala, USA TODAY, 24 Nov. 2022
• The detainee was later pronounced dead, according to the FBI.
  — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 5 Oct. 2022
• At one point, a detainee pointed out a passing guard who was unmasked.
  — Alan Judd, ajc, 1 Dec. 2021
• On its Telegram feed, the rights group said police were beating some of the detainees and seizing their devices.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• At the same time, every prisoner and detainee has the right to [file a complaint] in the accepted channels and his claims will be examined.
  — Guy Davies, ABC News, 18 Sep. 2024
• Neighboring rooms would be used to handle detainees, while the hotel’s kitchen was placed on call to begin producing meals for the prisoners.
  — Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024