How to Use detention in a Sentence

detention

noun

• The jail is only used for brief detentions.
• He got detention for being late to class.
• They both got three detentions this year.
• What the detention process is really like for brands that experienced it.
  — Lauren Parker, Sourcing Journal, 3 Oct. 2024
• Bennett was arrested and taken to a city detention center.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 29 Jan. 2023
• Powell had been held in the detention center since Jan. 18 on second-degree assault charges.
  — Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 22 Jan. 2023
• All five inmates who fled a Missouri detention center this week have been captured, authorities said.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 21 Jan. 2023
• He is scheduled to appear in court for a detention hearing on Tuesday, according to court documents.
  — Ty Roush, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• The trustee told police that Hatch complained about being incarcerated and lifted her pant leg to show her home detention ankle bracelet.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Oct. 2024
• There are likely consequences for theft already in place, such as detention, suspension, or even expulsion for repeat offenders.
  — Melissa Willets, Parents, 4 Oct. 2024
• Home detention comes with certain conditions, including that they be allowed to leave home for work, school, religious services and medical appointments, the judge said.
  — Adrian Sainz, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2024
• After being taken to the Prince William County detention center, she was released on an unsecured bond, the police said.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 25 Jan. 2023
• The detention of the two activists is a sign of the times.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 23 Oct. 2023
• The third bit, of course, leans into a school/detention joke.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 31 Mar. 2023
• The detention had been extended in August through at least Nov. 30, the press service of the court said at the time.
  — Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 27 Nov. 2023
• My team had been told I’d been transferred from detention but didn’t know when or where.
  — Brittney Griner, TIME, 3 May 2024
• That youth is due back in court for a detention hearing on May 15 and also may be tried as an adult.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 3 May 2024
• And now Guo will spend the night in jail, after pleading not guilty and consenting to detention.
  — Bob Van Voris, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2023
• Why is there such a strong reaction to Khan’s detention?
  — Riazat Butt, Chicago Tribune, 11 May 2023
• Every old farm field, railroad right of way, and shopping center detention basin is chock full of the stinky trees.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 22 Mar. 2024
• His detention of about two years was the longest for an American.
  — Time, 19 July 2023
• The two staffers may be a combination of one deputy and one detention deputy, but never two unarmed deputies.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 30 Aug. 2023
• His wife, Vida, also a U.S. citizen, was in Iran at the time of his detention and was barred from leaving the country.
  — Farnaz Fassihi, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• However, while still living abroad to avoid detention, she was cleared in March.
  — Koh Ewe, TIME, 31 May 2024
• At a preschool carnival, the two joke about having been to juvenile detention over the summer.
  — Olivia McCormack, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2023
• Soto was hired by the Sheriff’s Department in 1998 as a detentions and court services deputy.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 May 2023
• The judge then raised the issue of how to proceed with a detention hearing with Edwards' mental fitness in question.
  — Rich Schapiro, NBC News, 5 Feb. 2023
• The state will now instead pay 75% of those costs, but still cover only 50% of the cost of detention and longer-term residential placement.
  — Jodi S. Cohen, ProPublica, 13 Dec. 2023
• Last month, a Moscow court refused to hear an appeal against his pre-trial detention.
  — Darya Tarasova, CNN, 23 Oct. 2023
• Mexico now has the largest migrant detention system in the hemisphere.
  — TIME, 9 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024