Sentence examples for a detention cell from inspiring English sources

He was held overnight in a detention cell.

Sitting in a detention cell, Li Mengnan was silent and preoccupied.

He was held in a detention cell for about 45 minutes, then put on the next plane back to London.

After his long flight, he landed in Los Angeles International Airport, only to be stopped at immigration, taken away, and placed in a detention cell.

Word of the highway gun battle reached him while he spent the evening in a detention cell, where he said, he was treated well and with respect by the American authorities.

At its worst, it was flat-out torture: in a detention cell, security officers bent back Mr. Yu's fingers one by one, kicked him in the chest and held burning cigarettes close to his face, he said.

The teenager, Gulet Mohamed, a Somali-American who turned 19 during his captivity, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday from a Kuwaiti detention cell that he was beaten with sticks, forced to stand for hours, threatened with electric shocks and warned that his mother would be imprisoned if he did not give truthful answers about his travels in Yemen and Somalia in 2009.

Orange County authorities said Princess Buniah al-Saud, 41, a niece of King Fahd, had been held in a special detention cell at the county jail after her arrest on Monday at the Hyatt Grand Cypress.

He was forced to share a crowded detention cell with no beds.

The guards put him in a small detention cell and held him for 10 hours.

From a Vancouver detention cell, Lai Changxing, the man charged with masterminding the largest corruption scandal in modern Chinese history, presents Canada with a devilish dilemma.