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.
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The man came out of the apartment just before 5 a.m. and was detained by deputies.
—Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 10 Apr. 2024
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Hochberg said Walls was attempting to detain the man for the crime and denied that Walls choked the man.
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One of them joked that I might be detained once inside.
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Four were detained in Georgia in late April, along with more than 150 books.
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Nearly two-thirds of those who are detained are Black teens.
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Smotrich, then 25, was detained and questioned for weeks.
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Some people were detained, their hands bound with zip ties.
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The suspects were stopped in a Winn-Dixie parking lot and detained.
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Hours before the game, he was detained along with a few of his Dolphins teammates.
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The footage then depicts a struggle that starts as Blasingame attempts to detain Black.
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That these civilians took it upon them on their own to take him in, to detain him, to stop his movements.
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Officers, gun in hand, then approach and detain the man.
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Tens of thousands more are detained each month at the southern border trying to join them.
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Two other juveniles were stopped and detained in the 1400 block of Southwest Bertha Blvd.
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Officers in the area saw a large group of people exit the restaurant and detained one person.
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The accused will continue to be detained until the court approves their sureties.
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In Haiti, dozens have been detained, but after nearly two years, there have been few, if any, other charges.
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The perp ran down the street to another bar, where Kinane helped a bouncer detain him until the cops arrived.
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LeFleur then instructed Baldwin to stop talking and stood next to him while he was detained.
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The majority of the protesters were detained for up to two days at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, the firm said.
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Rosario was detained after a 14-year-old San Diego County girl was found at his barracks on base, which is at the north end of the county, on June 28.
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In the video, officers appeared to be forcibly detaining some men.
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For all its efforts, though, a record number of migrants were detained by U.S. border agents last year.
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Ford has been ordered detained ahead of his federal trial, set for April 29, in Salt Lake City.
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The complaint also said that Combs has had no contact with Doe in the years since and noted that Combs is currently detained.
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Questions remain about how people in a mass raid would be identified and where they would be detained.
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That would authorize him to detain and deport noncitizens in the United States older than 14.
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