Definition: 1. A state of being confined (usually for a short time). 2. A punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home.
Use 'detention' in a sentence:
1. Jails and temporary detention camps are overflowing.
2. They can't give me (a) detention for this.
3. The government says the detentions are necessary on national security grounds.
4. Article 49 On site working staff of public places, in case of a fire, do not perform the obligation of organizing and guiding the evacuation of the on site masses, and cause casualty and death, but do not constitute a criminal charge, shall be punished with detention less than 15 days.
5. The rapporteur visited some local detention places and talked with detainees.
6. Prison and Detention Center conditions.
7. Currently three Detention by the police according to law.
8. Many say they were tortured in detention.
9. This fine has nothing to do with the detention incident.
10. A food fight in school would send you straight to detention.
11. See if she gives you "detention" for being a bad boy!
12. For instance, how many people are under detention?
13. Such an offence shall be punished by detention in prison or at hard labour.
14. The Problems and Countermeasures of China's Pretrial Detention and Relief System.
15. Study on the sustainable development of storage and detention zones.
16. Discussion on sand fill material compaction characteristics in Flood Detention Reservoir Project.
17. Research Some Problems of the Detention Before Trial.
18. Optimization and Risk Analysis of Storage and Detention Basin.
19. Arrest Procedures and Treatment While in detention.
20. All have been released except the captain who remains in detention.
21. Why does she end up in detention?
22. The detention of the fugitive was lawful.
23. The teacher kept the boys in detention after school.
24. There are four detects in current administrative detention system of China.
25. The first 10-day detention period ended Sunday.
26. He was kept in detention by the police.
27. The suspects were placed in detention.
28. The introduction of short sharp shocks in detention centers will simply give more young people a taste of something else they don't need.
29. The authorities in Hong Kong have released a second group of Vietnamese boat people from detention after Vietnam refused to accept them.
30. He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention.
31. He described the detention without trial of political opponents as a cowardly act.
32. But the biggest shift concerns family detention.
33. The Main Points of More Detailed Inspection and Detention for the Ship.
34. Their continued detention is unjustifiable.
35. The group also is planning visits to medical and detention centers.
36. They can't give me detention for this.
37. What is the reason for their detention?
38. After two hours in detention, I was approached by one of the officers.
39. Suspensive detention system is the importance part of the modern legal system.
40. Discussion on Constructing Long Effective Mechanism for Safe Detention and Administration.
41. If persons who are sentenced to criminal detention for resident identity cards, they shall not be issued such cards during the period when they are serving their sentences or undergoing rehabilitation through labour, or are held in custody;
42. The prisoners were discharged from the detention camp.
43. The Conflict and Balance in the Legislation on the Detention Center System.
44. There are still some 24,000 Vietnamese boat people in detention camps in Hong Kong.
45. Analysis of the Nature of Detention Power.
46. He has been in detention ever since.
47. He said that he was not tortured or maltreated during his detention.
48. Fifteen-year-old Danny is on the run from a juvenile detention centre.
49. Land uses within the areas of management and protection of rivers, lakes and reservoirs and flood storage and detention areas should be in line with plans for the comprehensive control, development and utilization of rivers and lakes and to the requirements of river channels, flood flows of rivers and lakes, flood storage and water transmission.
50. The government is devising a plan to liberate prisoners held in detention camps.
51. The detention raised two distinct but closely linked questions.
52. They have been held in detention since the end of June.
53. Arbitrary arrests and detention without trial were common.
54. The legislation provides for the detention of suspected terrorists for up to seven days.
