Sentence examples for to detain from inspiring English sources

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to detain

verb

Keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention.

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"We're allowed to detain them".

No one stepped forward to detain him.

A pretext to detain a foreign national?

There is suspicion to detain him further.

There aren't many labels to detain you.

"There was coordination between FedEx and ICE to detain people".

Its sweeping powers permitted the police to detain suspects indefinitely.

Or the need for seven immigration officers to detain her.

How long is it decent to detain a lungfish.

They were right to detain him, he says.

He added, "You have to have a reason to detain".

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