internment
noun
in·tern·ment
in-ˈtərn-mənt 
ˈin-ˌtərn-
plural internments
: the act of interning someone or the state of being interned
His parents had never told him about the exclusion laws, or the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the subject had not come up in his textbooks.—
Timothy Egan
Timothy EganEven in the midst of betrayal and the resulting alienation experienced in the internment, there exists the unnegotiable state of human bonds and possibility for reconciliation.—Fumitaka Matsuoka
Fumitaka Matsuoka… an American who spent World War II with his parents in an internment camp.—Philip Siekman
Philip SiekmanExamples of internment in a Sentence
the internment of Americans of Japanese descent during World War II is one of the more shameful chapters in United States history
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The United States has a shameful history of detaining and deporting citizens, from the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to more recent cases.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Musician and educator Harry Urata, confined to an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, encountered Japanese-American workers who had processed sugar cane leaves on Hawaiian plantations since the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
Peterson's work is focused on a French internment camp that opened prior to World War I and why countries choose to detain people rather than monitor them out in society.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
In Kevin Nguyen’s gripping novel, the U.S. government sets up internment camps for citizens of Vietnamese ancestry following a wave of terrorist attacks.
—Meg Zukin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Apr. 2025
Musician and educator Harry Urata, confined to an internment camp after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, encountered Japanese-American workers who had processed sugar cane leaves on Hawaiian plantations since the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 9 Apr. 2025
Peterson's work is focused on a French internment camp that opened prior to World War I and why countries choose to detain people rather than monitor them out in society.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 5 Apr. 2025
In Kevin Nguyen’s gripping novel, the U.S. government sets up internment camps for citizens of Vietnamese ancestry following a wave of terrorist attacks.
—Meg Zukin, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for internment
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“Internment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/internment. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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