Examples of 'detain them' in a sentence

Meaning of "detain them"

detain them: To hold someone in custody or confinement, typically by legal authority or under suspicion of wrongdoing

How to use "detain them" in a sentence

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detain them
They can detain them for hours.
Detain them both for now.
There is no reason to detain them at this point.
And detain them in med deck.
Organise a search then detain them for questioning.
To detain them for as long as is necessary.
We are supposed to detain them for questioning.
They are not terrorists and it is wrong to detain them.
We will detain them all for questioning.
Immigration will not detain them.
We will detain them till we figure this out.
I will try and detain them.
We will detain them until tomorrow.
This government will stop at nothing to detain them.
I am going to have to detain them until they can be viewed.

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This is when the police decided to detain them.
They instructed us to detain them without any preconditions.
Insults were exchanged and the soldiers tried to detain them.
We have no right to detain them under international law.
If we were to have a reason to detain them.
No need to detain them if they are dead.
I would be happy to detain them.
I have to personally detain them if they fail in this mission.
Detain them at once.
Check every room and detain them in the van.
I can not detain them because we are not a conscription force.
Disarm and detain them.
Detain them there.
We will detain them here.
Not even the most fearsome punishment could detain them.
But we can detain them.
I can not detain them indefinitely until we can tie someone to the crime.
But do not detain them.
They are daring the security forces who are there in great numbers to detain them.
The court decided to detain them due to the risk of flight.
There was sufficient evidence against the accused for the police to arrest and detain them.
Or to detain them as a group.
Tell security to detain them.
No detain them.
He tried to detain them.
We detain them.
The doctors who are party members we detain them as briefly as possible.
The police can detain them again at any time or interrogate them further.
I ordered to detain them.
People who are unlawfully detained can normally press charges against those that detain them.
Arbitrarily detain them.
The CIA realizes there are other extraterrestrials and secretly plans to find and detain them.
I am requesting full authority to arrest and detain them by any means necessary.
Detain them In the crew lounge.
Find them And detain them in med deck.

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