Sentence examples for were detaining from inspiring English sources

I asked the men why they were detaining her.

I cared less about the place, and more about the people who were detaining me..

The Israeli police said they were detaining eight people, including the hall's owners, a builder and an engineer, for questioning.

He initially went to London, but he arrived at a time when the English were detaining German and Austrian citizens.

Until last Saturday, metropolitan Basra was being policed by 48 armed British military policemen, plus 900 unarmed locals: they were detaining just four or five miscreants daily.

His lawyer, Joshua E. Bardavid, said the authorities had given no explanation about why they were detaining his client after so many years.

Six insurgents were detained.

Dozens were detained.

Many were detained illegally.

Thousands were detained".

Scores of people were detained.