How to Use in detention in a Sentence

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  • The laws and the science on how to treat children in detention have changed a bit since then.
    — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
  • Herrick said the teen was ordered to stay in detention.
    — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 21 Mar. 2023
  • Moscow denies that Cherkasov, now in detention in Brazil, is a spy.
    — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
  • One of the activists targeted in that frame job died in detention.
    — Wired Staff, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
  • This reflected the fact that one person in detention chose to leave Britain.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
  • But as the days have progressed with Bazoum still in detention, hopes of a reversal are starting to fade.
    — Michael Birnbaum, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Some young people waiting for a spot to open up in the program have waited in detention for months.
    — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
  • As someone who spent a lot of their school years in detention, Louis has never been one to follow rules.
    — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 6 July 2023
  • Maley ordered that the teen charged with rape be held in detention while the case progresses.
    — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
  • One of Hani's cousins was released after a couple of hours in detention.
    — ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • In the absence of a free press, news spread by word of mouth: thousands of people were tortured, or left to die, in detention centers.
    — Stephania Taladrid, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • The rest were in detention, but there were presumably others out there.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • The court ordered the soldiers to remain in detention until a hearing next month.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2022
  • The call marks the second time Blinken has spoken to Whelan during his nearly five years in detention.
    — Shannon Crawford, ABC News, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Most of the defendants had already spent at least the last three years in detention before the 118-day trial ended.
    — Tiffany May, New York Times, 30 May 2024
  • Abd el-Fattah, a prominent blogger and activist who has been in detention for much of the last decade, has been on hunger strike since April 2.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 12 Nov. 2022
  • People in prisons, in detention, are forced to work in inhumane conditions for no pay for the profit of the state.
    — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Some of the Guantánamo detainees seemed to him to have landed in detention through a mix of bad luck and bad information.
    — Tamara Audi, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • At the end of season one, we were introduced to Shan Barnes, a Constance student Zoya befriends in detention.
    — Tyler McCall, Harper's BAZAAR, 30 Nov. 2022
  • For me, the idea that bad things are happening in Gaza, that bad things will happen in detention centers, is not surprising.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • He was released from house arrest last year after months in detention.
    — Amar Nadhir, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
  • For instance, guards would watch to see whether prisoners would eat the chicken they were given for dinner on their first night in detention.
    — Vera Mironova, Foreign Affairs, 8 Dec. 2017
  • Nine months since he was toppled in one of the coups that have recently wracked West Africa, Mohamed Bazoum is lingering in detention with no end in sight.
    — Elian Peltier, New York Times, 4 May 2024
  • After a month in detention, he was released without charge.
    — Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 July 2024
  • In recent weeks, several countries and the United Nations have raised concerns about the health of the former leader, who faces years in detention.
    — Akanksha Sharma, CNN, 14 Sep. 2023
  • As of earlier this month, 35 youths were in detention, a county official there said.
    — Gina Kaufman, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2022
  • They were met with a bloody crackdown that saw civilians shot in the street, abducted in nighttime raids and allegedly tortured in detention.
    — Sandi Sidhu, CNN, 31 Jan. 2023
  • That deal was going to ratify what is almost guaranteed to be life terms in detention.
    — The Editors, National Review, 5 Aug. 2024
  • Clark was extradited to the US from Thailand almost five years ago and, before that, had served almost three years in detention in Thailand.
    — Wes Davis, The Verge, 11 July 2023
  • Fellow female students occasionally stop her to take selfies and ask about her time in detention.
    — Rebecca Wright, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024

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