How to Use in detention in a Sentence

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• Khalil, a green card holder, has been in detention for more than a month.
  — Lauren Irwin, The Hill, 22 Apr. 2025
• Blanton spent four nights and five days in detention.
  — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
• The laws and the science on how to treat children in detention have changed a bit since then.
  — Paige Pfleger, ProPublica, 16 Nov. 2023
• Being in detention is a choice.
  — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
• If found guilty, Nadezhdin could face up to 15 days in detention.
  — Reuters, NBC news, 14 July 2026
• One of the activists targeted in that frame job died in detention.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2022
• Hicks can’t go visit his husband in detention.
  — Idaho Statesman, 11 Aug. 2025
• He was released from house arrest last year after months in detention.
  — Amar Nadhir, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024
• The rest were in detention, but there were presumably others out there.
  — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
• Even in detention, Chavez, with a head full of tousled black hair and big brown eyes, had an easy laugh and smile.
  — Mica Rosenberg, ProPublica, 6 July 2026
• The 17-year-old remains in detention and will be charged as an adult, Lott said.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 31 Dec. 2024
• Gómez had spent almost a week in detention before he got rushed to the hospital.
  — Jack Herrera, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2025
• Some young people waiting for a spot to open up in the program have waited in detention for months.
  — Sarah Volpenhein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 May 2022
• Maley ordered that the teen charged with rape be held in detention while the case progresses.
  — Cameron Knight, The Enquirer, 5 May 2023
• Iftekhar Alam claims he was tortured in detention after being led away from his home.
  — Rebecca Wright, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024
• The school even revised its dress code to outlaw the shirts, and put students in detention for wearing them.
  — Jackson Thompson, Fox News, 24 Dec. 2024
• Now, the husband and father of two children has remained in detention for about three weeks.
  — Nick Mordowanec, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
• Yoon remains in detention and did not attend the ruling, which is final.
  — ABC News, 9 July 2026
• This reflected the fact that one person in detention chose to leave Britain.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2023
• One of Hani's cousins was released after a couple of hours in detention.
  — ABC News, 8 Dec. 2023
• The clothes that Khaled had worn in detention were hanging behind them on a makeshift clothesline.
  — Mosab Abu Toha, New Yorker, 24 Oct. 2025
• While some have been released from custody, others have remained in detention for weeks or even months.
  — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 4 Oct. 2025
• As someone who spent a lot of their school years in detention, Louis has never been one to follow rules.
  — Monique Wilson, Glamour, 6 July 2023
• Moscow denies that Cherkasov, now in detention in Brazil, is a spy.
  — Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• If the government succeeds, the two could find themselves back in detention.
  — Lilia Luciano, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
• Knowing that there are babies who are being assaulted right now in detention camps who don’t have a voice.
  — Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026
• She was taken off the plane and placed back in detention, with little understanding of why.
  — Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 15 Feb. 2026
• Her brother remains in detention and has been told he will be deported back to Guatemala.
  — Joel Rose, NPR, 26 Mar. 2025
• That year in detention did little to change the boy's trajectory.
  — Natalie Eilbert, jsonline.com, 19 Mar. 2026
• The court ordered the soldiers to remain in detention until a hearing next month.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 31 Dec. 2022