How to Use detainee in a Sentence

detainee

noun

• Each group of detainees moved through the space as a unit.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
• One detainee kicks the bars in a futile attempt to force the door open.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
• At the time of Burham’s escape, the jail was housing 87 detainees.
  — Steve Almasy, CNN, 12 July 2023
• Bains is the third Harris County Jail detainee to die in the first month of 2023 alone.
  — Michael Murney, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
• The photos showed the bodies of detainees with signs of torture.
  — Kareem Chehayeb and Ghaith Al-Sayed, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
• The fifth detainee had been on house arrest before the deal went down.
  — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2023
• Dominique was one of three detainees removed from the flight, but the only one charged.
  — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
• Even this year, some of the references toward to the end of the season spoke to the events of the early 2000s, like the Iraq War and the idea of the detainees and torture.
  — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
• If this were to happen, the detainees would have to be transferred back to jail, putting a swift end to their time on Pianosa.
  — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
• Serving on the front lines seemed less risky than staying in prison, the detainees said in interviews with The New York Times.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
• The group estimates that thousands of children may be among the detainees.
  — Hande Atay Alam, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
• The jail detainee who died this week was found unresponsive in his cell around 4:20 p.m.
  — Blayne Alexander, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
• The vast majority of its detainees came from West Coast cities.
  — Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
• Ghani also agreed to release 5,000 Taliban detainees as part of the agreement to end the conflict.
  — Dan Lamothe and Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023
• Wiley claimed that the detainee in question was kin to one of his domestics.
  — Time, 29 July 2023
• The Kremlin's Peskov left a journalist's question about the treatment of the detainees unanswered.
  — Lidia Kelly and Philippa Fletcher, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
• That money was part of a deal to release five American detainees who were held in Iran.
  — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023
• On its Telegram feed, the rights group said police were beating some of the detainees and seizing their devices.
  — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2024
• Pappier said Bukele’s timing to transfer the detainees to the mega prison was suspect.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2023
• Some detainees were reluctant to leave en masse for fear of being killed in crossfire, sources told Reuters.
  — Reuters, NBC News, 3 Mar. 2024
• The fifth detainee had already been under house arrest.
  — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 11 Sep. 2023
• The website still has the roster of detainees, listing them by name, by charge and as a group for those arrested over the most recent three days.
  — Tom Sissom, arkansasonline.com, 25 Dec. 2023
• No foul play is suspected in the death of a detainee Friday morning at the Johnson County Jail.
  — Jake Allen, The Indianapolis Star, 11 Aug. 2023
• He and a couple dozen detainees were sent with shackles on their waists and legs on a bus to Nevada, Mercado said.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Mar. 2023
• Uniformed guards appeared to leave amid the blaze without helping detainees get out.
  — Danielle Wallace, Fox News, 30 Mar. 2023
• But parts of it match the testimony of former Gazan detainees interviewed by The Times.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• The first agent said detainees dropped further to less than 200 people in custody by 2 p.m. local time Tuesday.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 3 Jan. 2024
• Whether, when and how Israel will try Gazan detainees remain unclear.
  — Miriam Berger, Washington Post, 24 Feb. 2024
• Including those detainees, the deal should see 869 prisoners released, the Red Cross says.
  — Ahmed Al-Haj and Samy Magdy, ajc, 14 Apr. 2023
• Israel's Channel 13 TV broadcast footage showing dozens of detainees stripped to their underwear, hands in the air.
  — CBS News, 10 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 7 May 2024