Sentence example with the word 'detain'

detain

apprehend, cage, crib, encage, hold up, keep back, lose speed, pen up, resist, shut up, take in sail

Definition v. deprive of freedom

Last update: May 25, 2016


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Custom officers wanted to detain the passengers till the police came.   [verb]

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Urgent detention of acquitted persons Section 134: power of court to detain acquitted persons 259.   [noun]

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It seeks to detain and deport immigrants without cause or trial.   [noun]

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These Delawares have their laws, which forbid them to detain you; but I--I have no such obligation.   [verb]

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"This is neither the place nor the occasion to detain you with selfish wishes," he added; "but what heart loaded like mine would not wish to cast its burden."   [verb]

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If I am detained it will be by finding my friends out of town, and having to make a journey to see them.   [verb]

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"Angela, forgive me----" he began, trying to detain her; but she hurried on through the open French window, and ran upstairs to her room, where she locked herself in.   [verb]

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Among them must be the young man who knows the coast, and we will detain him for pilot.   [verb]

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Angela saw that as each hunch changed hands the royal fingers touched the lady's tapering finger-tips and tried to detain them.   [verb]

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