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

The church said the depiction is supposed to match the experience of migrants in detention facilities and of community members, including children, who were detained during raids. —Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 5 Dec. 2025

Baby Jesus is wrapped in a thin blanket resembling aluminum foil, which the church said is a reference to the emergency blankets used in detention facilities. —Michael Dorgan, FOXNews.com, 4 Dec. 2025

Immigration authorities are also stepping up their efforts to locate and apprehend more than 1,860 Afghans across the country who have been given final deportation orders but are not currently in detention, The New York Times reported on Tuesday. —Nicole Acevedo, NBC news, 3 Dec. 2025

Surovtsev will remain in detention while the court proceedings play out. —Danya Gainor, CNN Money, 19 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for in detention

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