Examples of 'had been detained' in a sentence

Meaning of "had been detained"

had been detained: refers to someone being kept in custody or arrested by the authorities for a period of time before being released or charged

How to use "had been detained" in a sentence

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had been detained
Persons who had been detained illegally were released.
No one ever knew where he had been detained.
They had been detained following unfair trials.
He did not understand why he had been detained if he was in transit.
He had been detained for thirty years.
He also denied that bodies had been detained.
Weston had been detained earlier today.
I came in at a time when they had been detained.
No children had been detained as a consequence of the recent events.
Officials said three suspects had been detained.
Children had been detained and kidnapped.
Allegedly a number of journalists and bloggers had been detained.
The young men had been detained or killed.
I had been detained in the forced labor for one year.
Two of the settlers had been detained for questioning.
He had been detained for eight months without a trial.
Neither said how long they had been detained.
Several adults had been detained and an inquiry opened.
The police said five men had been detained.
They had been detained together for a long time.
On arrival a man had been detained.
He had been detained for over a year.
Nazi supporters had been detained.
He had been detained for almost a year.
They maintained that he had been detained according to the law.
He had been detained at the same time as his mother.
I apologize that you had been detained against your will.
He had been detained incommunicado for a week.
Apparently it was a man who had been detained three days earlier.
My dad had been detained and was facing deportation proceedings.
A journalistic source subsequently rumoured that he had been detained or killed.
The first said he had been detained in a murder investigation.
A police spokesman stated that eight youths had been detained.
The children had been detained for several months.
It would also be useful to know where they had been detained.
Children too had been detained in prisons and camps.
They were not told over what they had been detained.
Her brother had been detained already.
I pushed aside the question of why he had been detained.
He had been detained pending trial.
A number of journalists claimed that they had been detained and tortured.
He had been detained earlier that day at a protest by national guardsmen.
They had also been anxious about relatives who had been detained.
Koestler had been detained in three jails in separate countries.
The police and security forces denied that he had been detained.
All had been detained previously.
It would be interesting to inspect the conditions under which he had been detained.
All because he had been detained for living on the street.
Nobody had been literally caged but some patients had been detained in the hospital.
He had been detained a year earlier.

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