Sentence examples for given detention from inspiring English sources

But Crittenton was never suspended or given detention, she said.

Children, they claimed, were being given detention for not clasping their hands when seated, or for burping accidentally.

The boys said students who go to school without wearing the uniform are given detention or may even be sent home.

She did not look like a girl who had ever been given detention, or got drunk on snakebite, or taught herself to play bass guitar.

According to the lawsuit, Stratton was given detention after posting disparaging comments about a teacher's aide on her Facebook page, even though she was at home and not using school computers.

What he finds, in a childhood, adolescence and early adulthood detained in England by Ghana's 1974 coup - memories interwoven with the episodic account of his return to Africa - is a story of the refugee's distress: banging his head against the wall as a child, suffering outrageously racist taunts, being given detention in school for "too much lip".

I'm constantly coming across efforts being made to give detention without charge the Walt Disney treatment: the crushing weight of solitary confinement is painted as a non-issue; the soul-sapping nothingness of the claustrophobic, cold cell is portrayed as a mild inconvenience.

Having lost any chance of a promotion, rather than giving detention, Skinner instead expels Bart.

For petty offences, a company commander could have men fined or confined to barracks for fatigue duty A battalion Commanding Officer could give detention, order up to 28 days Field Punishment, or demote corporals to the ranks (officers and senior NCOs were dealt with by court martial other than for very trivial offences).

If the teacher persists, or threatens to give detention, she then answers the question.

Be sure to give detention or extra homework to students that break the rules.