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

Gimenez, the first Republican South Florida member of Congress to visit Krome, said the center was currently running at capacity, with 1,000 men in detention. —Churchill Ndonwie, Miami Herald, 24 June 2025

In a ruling on Sunday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes denied the U.S. government’s motion to keep Abrego Garcia in detention before his trial. —Travis Loller, Fortune, 23 June 2025

Théo Cler, a French street artist who had been sentenced to three years in prison in Azerbaijan for painting graffiti, returned to France following 422 days in detention after he was pardoned by Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said. —Arkansas Online, 29 May 2025

The Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil remains in detention, though other protesters have been freed. —Catie Edmondson, New York Times, 20 May 2025

Rhymes for in detention

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