Sentence examples for serve detention from inspiring English sources

At most schools, it's forbidden and you might lose your computer privileges and/or have to serve detention.

In the opening segment of every episode, Bart Simpson appears in a school classroom, apparently serving detention.

A series of shifts dyed with abstract cosmic dust patterns called to mind long hours serving detention in the science laboratory.

In Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron Weasley serves detention with Filch after using his father's flying car to get to school.

On Friday, Mr. Temime said he visited Mr. Polanski in prison, where the director is awaiting a Swiss tribunal's answer to his legal appeal seeking to serve his detention under house arrest in his chalet in Gstaad, a village in the foothills of Mont Blanc.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is compiling a list of such nonmilitary prisons that could serve as detention sites, officials said.

A lot of people targeted went on to pay fines and serve home detention, but Chong was sentenced to 9 months in prison on top of a litany of fines and property seizures.

Try to get a note from one of your parents explaining why you don't deserve or can't serve the detention.

If your parents aren't able to send a note to the school, see if they'll call the teacher and talk them out of making you serve the detention.

It was not clear if Sisi also pardoned a third journalist, Australian Peter Greste, who had been on trial with his colleagues and spent 400 days in an Egyptian jail before being deported in February under a law allowing prisoners to serve out detentions in their home countries.

Mr. Mars once gave me a detention for smoking a cigarette in the bathroom while I was serving a detention for a different offense.