How to Use custody in a Sentence

custody

noun

• The judge granted custody to the grandparents.
• She has sole custody of her daughter.
• The bank provides safe custody for valuables.
• The judge found probable cause exists to hold Morales in custody on the charges.
  — Tracy Neal, arkansasonline.com, 20 Nov. 2023
• The trial will be rescheduled once Franklin is in custody.
  — Jamie Landers, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• No suspects were in custody as of about two hours after the shooting.
  — Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Oct. 2023
• Detroit police took a suspect in the crash into custody at the scene.
  — Kylie Martin, Detroit Free Press, 19 Aug. 2023
• The group said agents gave them no food and minimal water while they were held in custody there.
  — K.c. Alfred, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Dec. 2023
• If Kelly did not accept the plea and go into custody, the deal would expire.
  — The Arizona Republic, 3 Jan. 2024
• There are no suspects in custody, and there is no ongoing threat to the public.
  — CBS News, 24 June 2023
• There are believed to be 159 hostages still in the custody of Hamas or other terrorist groups.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
• She and the other customers were released later in the day, the woman said on Thursday, but the florist was still in custody and her shop had been closed.
  — Richard C. Paddock, New York Times, 23 June 2023
• All five have pleaded not guilty to all charges and are in police custody awaiting trial.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2023
• Ming, who stayed at the scene, was sentenced to more than two years in prison and is no longer in custody, according to his attorney.
  — Ashley Ahn, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• Under the terms of China’s wildlife agency, zoos that host the pandas never get full custody.
  — Ramsey Al-Rikabi, Fortune, 8 Nov. 2023
• This meant that children could spend months in custody with their parents, even though none of them had committed a crime.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2024
• Slater filed for divorce from Jay on Wednesday in New York state, and matters of custody will be decided through the process.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 28 July 2023
• The other three were not in custody at the time, and their whereabouts weren’t immediately clear.
  — Jonathan Dienst, NBC News, 16 Sep. 2023
• All charges in the case against Michael Turney have been dismissed and he was released from custody on Tuesday, July 18.
  — Dateline Nbc, NBC News, 18 July 2023
• He was placed in custody at the Natchitoches Parish Detention Center.
  — Angel Saunders, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• Ridge remained in custody at the Douglas County Jail without bond as of Jan. 25, online records show.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024
• The 43-year-old Wildwood, Fla., man remained in custody without bond as of Friday morning.
  — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
• He was released early on Dec. 13 after 14 months in custody.
  — Jill Lawless, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Dec. 2023
• Upon contact, all three fled, and two were caught by police and taken into custody, Parks said.
  — Matt Phillips, CNN, 3 Sep. 2023
• He was taken into custody at an apartment near Phoenix.
  — Sarah Nelson, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Mar. 2024
• In the filing, the actress asked for sole legal and physical custody of their 11-year-old daughter, Lula Boginia.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 2 Dec. 2023
• Both women have remained in custody since their arrest.
  — Mark Guarino, ABC News, 16 Dec. 2023
• On Tuesday, deputies received a tip about Fullerton's whereabouts and took him into custody.
  — Landon Mion, Fox News, 13 Mar. 2024
• According to the release, at least five different caliber weapons were used, and no suspects are in custody.
  — Raja Razek, CNN, 24 June 2023
• The migrants were taken into custody to be processed for removal from the U.S., Border Patrol said.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 5 May 2024