custody

Definition:
1. A state of being confined (usually for a short time).
2. Holding by the police.

Use 'custody' in a sentence:

• 1. She was taken into custody later that day.
• 2. The two men were charged with burglary and remanded in custody.
• 3. Three people appeared in court and two of them were remanded in custody.
• 4. They might be doing me a good turn if they took me into protective custody.
• 5. The youngster got nine months' youth custody.
• 6. He was transferred to FBI custody in a smooth cooperative effort between Egyptian and U.S. authorities.
• 7. At the last count the police in the Rimini area had 247 people in custody.
• 8. I'm going to go to court to get custody of the children.
• 9. He was transferred to FBI custody in a smooth co-operative effort between Egyptian and US authorities.
• 10. He fought his wife for custody of the children.
• 11. She's petitioning to regain custody of the child.
• 12. The judge directed that the mother should be given custody of the children.
• 13. Medical tests showed that the child wasn't the Twiggs' own daughter, but Kimberly was, thus sparking a custody battle with Robert Mays.
• 14. A mother yesterday won a tug-of-love battle for custody of her twin daughters.
• 15. They are expected to be kept in custody for several days.
• 16. He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.
• 17. The four suspects—two 15-year-old boys, a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old man—were taken into custody on Saturday, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department said.
• 18. Barrett was taken into protective custody.
• 19. Where the accused has a record of violence, they should always be kept in custody.
• 20. Carter was remanded in custody for seven days.
• 21. A 17-year-old youth was remanded in custody yesterday.
• 22. The hit-and-run driver has been in custody.
• 23. Kimberly has been the object of an angry custody battle between the man who raised her and her biological parents, with whom she has never lived.
• 24. He was remanded in custody , charged with the murder of a policeman.
• 25. Who will have custody of the children?
• 26. According to informed sources, those taken into custody include at least one major-general.
• 27. Trey Scott Atwater was taken into custody Saturday morning after Transportation Security Administration agents spotted what they described as a suspicious item.
• 28. Poverty forced her to surrender him to foster families, but only on the understanding that she could eventually regain custody.
• 29. He was sentenced to two years' youth custody.
• 30. After the riot, 32 people were taken into police custody.
• 31. The castle is now in the custody of the state.
• 32. The parents were locked in a bitter battle for custody.
• 33. The divorce court awarded custody to the child's mother.
• 34. They took me into custody, questioned me, then lodged me in a children's home.
• 35. He is in custody awaiting trial.
• 36. He was kept in custody for his own safety.
• 37. With juveniles under eighteen, there's little we can do. We can't keep them in custody. They just laugh in your face.
• 38. The judge directed that the mother be given custody of the children.
• 39. Child custody is normally granted to the mother.
• 40. He was released from custody the next day.
• 41. The bank provides safe custody for valuables.