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• The UN inspector stated that the Australian government's migrant detention facilities were in effect concentration camps.From the entry concentration camp
• You got off lightly by not being kept in detention for breaking that window.From the entry get off
• If you defy your teacher you may end up in detention.From the entry defy
• You want me to go to detention? I don't give a frick!From the entry frick
• You two are staying in the detention room until you talk it out.From the entry talk out
• Peter was sent to detention for backchatting the teacher.From the entry backchat
• Peter was sent to detention for backtalking the teacher.From the entry backtalk
• The operational definition of a well-behaved student might be set at the threshold of "no more than 2 detentions in each semester".From the entry operational definition
• Historical references describe the camps as internment camps, although others favor the name relocation camps. Others, more critical of this action, refer to them as detention camps or concentration camps.From the entry internment camp
• The pair were initially transported to a Rio Grande detention facility, before being transferred to Dilley.2026 March 24, Dan Gooding, “ICE Detains Canadian Mom with 7-Year-Old Autistic Daughter”, in Newsweek, archived from the original on 24…. From the entry stepdaughter
• He has been arrested several times, transported in drone vans and brutalized in various detention facilities.2021 February 4, Kakwenza Rukirabashaija, “Horror inside a kidnap drone”, in The Observer. From the entry drone
• In Mori Kazakh Autonomous County, Guanguan films a detention center flanked by watchtowers and surveillance cameras.2021 November 18, Nuriman Abdurashid, Roseanne Gerin, “Video from Xinjiang provides fresh evidence of China’s Uyghur repression”, in Radio…. From the entry Mori
• There, pedosexuals are helped by a group of volunteers after their detention.2014, D. F. Swaab, We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, →ISBN. From the entry pedosexual
• Incidents occurred in prisons and detention centers under the jurisdiction of both civil and military authorities.1989 February, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988”, in United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Government…. From the entry Taitung
• I'm going to sue you for unlawful detention, womannapping, and holding me against my will.[1985, Lass Small, Tangled Web (Silhouette Desire; 241), New York, N.Y.: Silhouette Books, →ISBN, page 154. From the entry womannap
• A detention facility in Dabancheng, Xinjiang, last year.2022 August 25, Nick Cumming-Bruce, Austin Ramzy, “U.N. Report on Rights Abuses in Xinjiang May Be Delayed Again”, in The New York Times…. From the entry Dabancheng
• There shall be provided an infirmary or a place for the treatment of sick detained person in every place of detention.2015, Minister for Home Affairs, “Regulation 7”, in Prevention of Terrorism (Detained Persons) Regulations…. From the entry infirmary
• They were all hounded into detention, collectively accused of corruption.2012 May, Dan Agbese, “The Augean Stable”, in Ibrahim Babangida: The Military, Politics and Power in Nigeria, London; Abuja, Nigeria…. From the entry Augean stables
• The first time I met Ben was in after-school detention.2009, Anthony Varallo, This Day in History, Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 6. From the entry jug
• Except her dad had a go last time, the last time she'd brought home a detention slip for him to sign.2008, Stella Duffy, Mouths of Babes, page 10. From the entry have a go
• They are generally kept in "detention centers" in the Australian desert, or on islands in international waters privateered by the government.2004, Harvard Political Review, volume 31, page 31. From the entry privateer
• In one instance, eight prison guards were convicted in July for torturing to death a Taitung detention center prisoner.1989 February, “Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988”, in United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Government…. From the entry Taitung
• Of twenty-seven planned detention reservoirs, about ten have been completed.1972, Theodore Shabad, China's Changing Map, New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 18. From the entry Hungtse
• Gamboa, 52, initially was held at Texas’s Webb county detention center before being transferred to another facility in the state in Port Isabel.2025 November 4, Ramon Antonio Vargas, “Family speaks out after death of man deported by ICE in vegetative state”, in The Guardian. From the entry Webb County
• He was held for 18 days in a police detention centre, then transferred to a temporary “epidemic prevention centre” where he filmed the video.2020 August 7, Sophie Stuber, “Video of Uighur handcuffed to bed in quarantine centre refocuses attention on Chinese persecution”, in…. From the entry Foshan
• Indeed, there were so many of the former that I once mooted that all Lees should be arrested at birth and kept in preventative detention.2017, Theodore Dalrymple, The Knife Went In. From the entry lee
• When witches and demons caused enough trouble, the Union had a tendency to black-bag the baddies and toss them into a detention center.2016, S.M. Reine, Once Darkness Falls. From the entry black-bag
• A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the government from enforcing a controversial statute about the indefinite detention without trial of terrorism suspects.2012 September 12, Charlie Savage, “Judge Rules Against Law on Indefinite Detention”, in The New York Times. From the entry indefinite
• People landing on these islands could also be transferred to detention centres on Nauru or Manus Island and had no access to Australia′s legal system.2009, Linda Briskman, Chris Goddard, Susie Latham, Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia, page 31. From the entry detention centre
• The Russian public steam bath (banya) is a cultural hybrid which borrows freely from the Finnish sauna and the Turkish political detention centre.1986, Marc Polonsky, Russell Taylor, USSR, From an Original Idea by Karl Marx, Faber and Faber, →ISBN. From the entry banya
• The test was so general that defendant flooded the court's docket with appeals seeking judicial examination of the necessariness of prearraignment detentions.1981, Jerald P. Keene, “The Ill-Advised State Court Revival of the 'McNabb-Mallory' Rule”, in The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology…. From the entry necessariness
• If a child is dangerous, likely to run or if his parents cannot be found, he is placed in detention, often called DT.1974 Winter, Constance K. Lundberg, Kathryn L. Schuler, “Salt Lake County Juvenile Court – Focus on the Intake Officer, 1971–74”, in…. From the entry dt
• Photographers used to be able to catch a glimpse of activists in remand at another detention center in Lai Chi Kok as they were taken to and from court.2023 August 13, Louise Delmotte, “AP gets rare glimpse of jailed Hong Kong pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai”, in AP News, archived from…. From the entry Lai Chi Kok
• Those include 9 detention centers that hold defendants awaiting trial, 21 high-security penitentiaries and a supersecure prison in Florence, Colo., where several convicted terrorists are already locked up.2009 January 24, Mark Mazzetti, “Where Will Guantánamo Detainees Go?”, in New York Times. From the entry supersecure
• Hussein's being taken to his execution from his cell in an American military detention center in the postmidnight chill of Saturday had a surreal and even cinematic quality.2007 January 1, John F. Burns, “U.S. Questioned Iraq on the Rush to Hang Hussein”, in New York Times. From the entry postmidnight
• “The prisonlike conditions, this form of detention, is not necessary,” said Michelle Brané, who heads the detention and asylum program at the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children.2007 February 22, Rachel L. Swarns, “2 Groups Compare Immigrant Detention Centers to Prisons”, in New York Times. From the entry prisonlike
• LaMonica McIver said Tuesday that the federal assault charges filed against her a day earlier related to a chaotic melee outside an Immigration Customs and Enforcement detention facility are “absurd.”2025 May 20, Shania Shelton and Holmes Lybrand, “Democratic congresswoman says federal charges in ICE facility scuffle are ‘absurd’”, in CNN. From the entry melee
• The DPRK government maintains different systems of labor camps – the kwan-li-so, or political prison camps, and the kwo-hwa-so, or reeducation labor camps – among other types of detention facilities.2019 March, “Prisons of North Korea”, in United States Department of State, archived from the original on 28 Apr 2023, page 1. From the entry DPRK

Meaning of detention

1. noun The act of detaining or the state of being detained; hindrance.
2. noun Confinement of a prisoner awaiting trial.
3. noun A punishment given to a student for a minor infraction, typically requiring the student to report to a designated room during recess or outside of school hours to work on homework or perform busywork.

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How do you use detention in a sentence?

Detention is used as a noun. For example: “The UN inspector stated that the Australian government's migrant detention facilities were in effect concentration camps.”

What is a short sentence with detention?

“be stuck in detention”

What does detention mean?

Detention means the act of detaining or the state of being detained; hindrance.