How to Use detainee in a Sentence

detainee

noun
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  • The detainees’ lawsuit claimed conditions at the plant were brutal.
    — Madeleine O'Neill, Baltimore Sun, 8 May 2024
  • Inside a solitary confinement jail cell in Georgia, a pretrial detainee restrained to a chair freed his right arm from a restraint.
    — Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2024
  • Trump ordered the detention center, which has a history of inhumane treatment of detainees, to remain open.
    — Gabrielle Settles, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • In one image, a soldier held a leash around the neck of a detainee; in another, soldiers smiled beside naked and hooded prisoners piled into a pyramid.
    — Mallory Moench, TIME, 14 Apr. 2024
  • Former detainees told The Post and other media outlets that they were forced to kneel nearly all day on their knees with their eyes covered and hands shackled.
    — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 1 July 2024
  • Abu Hamdan established a baseline volume for these whispers by playing a series of tones and asking the former detainees whether the volume was too low or too high.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
  • Local police claimed that 21 others detainees also escaped in the mass jailbreak, which started when an inmate faked an illness to draw guards into his cell and then ambush them.
    — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 8 May 2024
  • The report includes descriptions and a timeline of some of the detainee deaths and why doctors believed based on this information that a death was potentially preventable.
    — Daniella Silva, NBC News, 25 June 2024
  • Harris was a pre-trial detainee at the Appling County Jail and was in solitary confinement, according to the suit.
    — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 18 Apr. 2024
  • Mediators have offered a 40-day cease-fire and exchange of Israeli hostages and many Palestinian detainees.
    — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 2 May 2024
  • The facilities have suffered years of lawsuits and abuse allegations that alleged excessive use of pepper spray, strip searches and restraints against detainees.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2024
  • Experts say the world's highest-profile detainee could be held briefly in a cell near the courtroom or potentially for days in a jail on notorious Rikers Island.
    — Bart Jansen, USA TODAY, 9 May 2024
  • Two of the detainees were students, a graduate and undergraduate student while the other two were not affiliated with the university.
    — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 1 May 2024
  • Each group of detainees moved through the space as a unit.
    — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024
  • One detainee kicks the bars in a futile attempt to force the door open.
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2023
  • At the time of Burham’s escape, the jail was housing 87 detainees.
    — Steve Almasy, CNN, 12 July 2023
  • Bains is the third Harris County Jail detainee to die in the first month of 2023 alone.
    — Michael Murney, Chron, 1 Feb. 2023
  • The photos showed the bodies of detainees with signs of torture.
    — Kareem Chehayeb and Ghaith Al-Sayed, BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2023
  • The fifth detainee had been on house arrest before the deal went down.
    — Barnini Chakraborty, Washington Examiner, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Dominique was one of three detainees removed from the flight, but the only one charged.
    — Guillermo Contreras, San Antonio Express-News, 3 May 2023
  • Even this year, some of the references toward to the end of the season spoke to the events of the early 2000s, like the Iraq War and the idea of the detainees and torture.
    — Hunter Ingram, Variety, 12 Jan. 2024
  • If this were to happen, the detainees would have to be transferred back to jail, putting a swift end to their time on Pianosa.
    — Silvia Marchetti, CNN, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Serving on the front lines seemed less risky than staying in prison, the detainees said in interviews with The New York Times.
    — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The group estimates that thousands of children may be among the detainees.
    — Hande Atay Alam, CNN, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The jail detainee who died this week was found unresponsive in his cell around 4:20 p.m.
    — Blayne Alexander, NBC News, 31 Aug. 2023
  • The vast majority of its detainees came from West Coast cities.
    — Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Ghani also agreed to release 5,000 Taliban detainees as part of the agreement to end the conflict.
    — Dan Lamothe and Karen Deyoung, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Apr. 2023
  • Wiley claimed that the detainee in question was kin to one of his domestics.
    — Time, 29 July 2023
  • The Kremlin's Peskov left a journalist's question about the treatment of the detainees unanswered.
    — Lidia Kelly and Philippa Fletcher, USA TODAY, 25 Mar. 2024
  • That money was part of a deal to release five American detainees who were held in Iran.
    — Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 12 Oct. 2023

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