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.
