Examples of 'detain' in a sentence
Meaning of "detain"
To detain means to keep someone in official custody, typically for questioning or investigation
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- To keep someone from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.
- To put under custody.
- To keep back or from; to withhold.
- To seize goods for official purposes.
How to use "detain" in a sentence
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They can detain them for hours.
Detain him for extreme torture later.
We are just gonna detain you for a while.
I can detain you for obstructing justice.
You did not even detain any suspects.
I must detain you on behalf of your herald.
There is no reason to detain them at this point.
To detain and hold in specially designated premises.
Let me no longer detain you from going to town.
Detain the hostiles for as long as possible.
I must not detain you any longer.
Detain him and let him stew.
I will not detain you any longer.
And you have no right whatsoever to detain me.
We have to detain everybody inside this perimeter.
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My business here will not detain me long.
I have to detain you for more questioning.
You have no right to stop and detain me.
The decision to detain is based on an assessment of risk.
You know they are gonna detain you.
We can detain you as long as we see fit.
It has recently been used to detain undocumented immigrants.
I will detain him here as long as possible.
But we will not detain you anymore.
I would appreciate it if you do not detain her.
We will detain them all for questioning.
I will have campus security detain him.
I shall not detain you any further.
Perhaps his business will detain him.
We are just going to detain you for a while in lockup.
Big fight if we try and detain him.
Let us detain her against her will.
This case need not detain us long.
So if you detain me for one moment more.
We do not have grounds to detain him anyway.
I will detain him until you return.
We can have the canadians detain you.
I need not detain you any longer.
You have no legal imperative to detain her.
And now we need detain you no longer.
The second time they did not detain me.
I will not detain you any further.
They have not been able to detain her.
It is possible to detain just one of the parents.
Detain anyone who tries to leave the building.
I am not here to detain you or to make a scene.
The challenge is how to deter or detain violators.
I can not detain her without cause.
Also has the power to detain people.
They can detain or seize suspect foods.
