in detention

idiom

: in a prison or similar place

Dozens of protesters were held/kept in detention for six hours.

Examples of in detention in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Pressure has been mounting on Australia, the US, the UK and other countries to repatriate thousands of citizens, most of them women and children, who have been trapped in detention camps in Syria since the fall of the Caliphate more than five years ago. —Lex Harvey, CNN Money, 17 Feb. 2026

During her two weeks in detention, food consisted of a light soup for breakfast, a potato for lunch and another for dinner. —Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026

After eight hours in detention, he was released after an exchange with a military doctor, who told him not to say anything. —Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026

And once in detention, they might be given tools like the one Avirmed used, where the background of a video is automatically blurred. —Valeria Ricciulli, Refinery29, 11 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for in detention

• apprehension
• comprehension
• condescension
• hypertension
• hypotension
• reinvention
• reprehension
• resuspension
• attention
• contention
• convention
• declension