How to Use internment in a Sentence

internment

noun

• After the war, most of the locals were placed in internment camps.
  — Monica Miller, NPR, 21 Sep. 2024
• From there, a hearse brings the coffin to Windsor for internment.
  — Time, 19 Sep. 2022
• Reynolds order will keep flags lowered until the day of internment for the soldiers.
  — Lucia Cheng, Des Moines Register, 5 Mar. 2026
• Japan was thought of as the enemy, with internment camps and everything.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
• That there were politicians making concerted efforts to lock them up in internment camps.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 13 Sep. 2024
• Flags are then raised on the sunset of the day of Cheney’s internment, which is still to be determined.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr, USA Today, 17 Nov. 2025
• The prisoners of war were then transported to places of internment in a manner that raised concerns.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2025
• Of the thousands of internment camps the Nazis constructed, Terezin was unique.
  — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
• Bischof says the social history map also shows Japanese internment camps on the west coast.
  — Jackie Northam, NPR, 7 Dec. 2025
• Among the most painful letters are those between Scheidt’s father and his brother, who would also spend time in internment camps.
  — Andrew Silow-Carroll, Sun Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
• Fewer internment survivors remain each year.
  — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 19 Feb. 2026
• The worst part of the internment was its indeterminacy.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
• Site of World War II internment camp to be used to detain immigrants.
  — Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
• His father, with his parents and siblings, had been confined to Japanese internment camps.
  — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2022
• In Australia, the deportees were placed in an internment camp in New South Wales.
  — Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
• Walz ordered the flags to fly at half-staff immediately until sunset on the day of Amor's internment.
  — Riley Moser, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
• Many Witnesses fled to neighboring Mozambique, where they were held in internment camps.
  — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
• Though ostracized in their time, people who resisted internment are now seen as civil-rights pioneers.
  — Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
• This is not the first time the former commander-in-chief has called for the internment of the homeless as a means of solving a problem plaguing cities across the country.
  — Matthew Medsger Boston Herald (tns), al, 20 Apr. 2023
• When his father, James, was 7 and living in Washington, Tad told me, he was sent to an internment camp.
  — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
• Their survival is dependent on local taxes and fees for opening or closing gravesites and providing internment rights.
  — Daniel Lempres, Sacbee.com, 23 Oct. 2025
• Mel and Josephine have been married 61 years, but this is the first time Josephine has been in Arkansas since her internment.
  — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2023
• The film also recounts how his father paved the way in making films about the Japanese internment camp experience.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
• The Rohingya still living in Myanmar face severe restrictions and many are confined to internment camps.
  — ABC News, 14 July 2026
• The Indigenous Aleuts were forcibly evacuated by the government and shipped to internment camps.
  — Susan Portnoy, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
• Their grandmother, Linda Horikawa, was only 4 years old when her family was forced into the internment camps.
  — Lauren Migaki, NPR, 24 Feb. 2025
• After their internment, the Kuromi family returned to their farm in 1945 to find their equipment stolen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2026
• His push for equity stems from his family’s internment during World War II.
  — Hanna Kang, Oc Register, 5 Aug. 2025
• Ameya sits down with her neighbor's 84-year-old grandmother, who was forced out of California and sent to an internment camp in Wyoming as a young girl.
  — Steve Drummond, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
• The park also has a new campground and trails for hiking, mountain biking, and off-roading—and preserves the historic site of a former Japanese internment camp.
  — Maya Silver, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2025