How to Use internment in a Sentence

internment

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  • From there, a hearse brings the coffin to Windsor for internment.
    — Time, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The rest of the family was shipped off to an internment camp in Poston, Ariz., during the war.
    — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
  • Of the thousands of internment camps the Nazis constructed, Terezin was unique.
    — Douglas Starr, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Aug. 2023
  • Mel and Josephine have been married 61 years, but this is the first time Josephine has been in Arkansas since her internment.
    — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2023
  • In 1941, the Kaminskys were arrested and sent to Drancy, an internment camp near Paris that was a way station to the death camps.
    — Joseph Berger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Jan. 2023
  • When his father, James, was 7 and living in Washington, Tad told me, he was sent to an internment camp.
    — Liza Weisstuch, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • This is not the first time the former commander-in-chief has called for the internment of the homeless as a means of solving a problem plaguing cities across the country.
    — Matthew Medsger Boston Herald (tns), al, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Japan was thought of as the enemy, with internment camps and everything.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Apr. 2023
  • Tamaki’s parents – natives of the San Francisco Bay Area – were also in an internment camp.
    — Stephanie Elam, CNN, 18 June 2023
  • The Indigenous Aleuts were forcibly evacuated by the government and shipped to internment camps.
    — Susan Portnoy, Travel + Leisure, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The pastor also compared how transgenders were treated in the U.S. to the Holocaust and Japanese internment camps later on in the message.
    — Kristine Parks, Fox News, 4 Apr. 2023
  • There are exhibits on the Aleutian campaign, as well as a timeline showing the evacuation and internment of the Unangan people.
    — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 3 June 2023
  • Many Witnesses fled to neighboring Mozambique, where they were held in internment camps.
    — Mathew Schmalz, The Conversation, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The heroism of the lone hero in unspoiled wilderness is replaced by the sense of a place marked by absence: the expulsion and internment of Native Americans; the exclusion of would-be immigrants.
    — Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2023
  • His father, with his parents and siblings, had been confined to Japanese internment camps.
    — Susan Dunne, Hartford Courant, 6 Nov. 2022
  • China has built mass internment camps in the Xinjiang province, where most Uyghurs live, and more than a million Uyghurs (as well as other religious minorities) have been detained in the last few years.
    — Adrienne Mahsa Varkiani, The New Republic, 27 June 2023
  • Many were intercepted, their passengers sent to internment camps in Cyprus.
    — Rebecca Frankel, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Jan. 2023
  • Bertolt Brecht jots an entry into his journal about the internment of Japanese Americans.
    — Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • Black residents who had not been killed were rounded up, ridiculed and marched at gunpoint to internment camps by law enforcement, where they were held captive subject to a White employer’s retrieval.
    — Suzette Malveaux, Washington Post, 19 June 2023
  • Mr Trump signed a bill that imposes sanctions on Chinese officials who were responsible for the Uighurs’ internment.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • The sweeping work presents Minidoka, an internment camp in Idaho where the Japanese American artist was incarcerated for two years in the early 1940s.
    — Angelica Aboulhosn, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Aug. 2023
  • Amnesty has raised alarms about a system of internment camps in China that swept up a million or more Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities, according to estimates by experts.
    — Rob Gillies, ajc, 6 Dec. 2022
  • Later, she was captured by the German military and became pregnant by a German officer in an internment camp.
    — Escher Walcott, Peoplemag, 27 Aug. 2023
  • More disturbing is her unquestioning acceptance of the removal of her best friend, Genevieve, to an internment camp when those identified as Jews are swept from the community.
    — Alida Becker, New York Times, 5 May 2023
  • Frankfurter sided squarely with the majority of the court in upholding internment.
    — John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Their imaginations get the better of them as their father retreats inward on a personal journey to recoup his life after surviving the tragedies of internment.
    — Holly Jones, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • The chapter of internment camps is little-known in American history, Takei commented.
    — I.c. Murrell, Arkansas Online, 5 May 2023
  • Six other internment camps are already national parks—and now, Amache is officially joining them.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
  • Dole's casket and family are then expected to return to Washington for the senator's internment.
    — Maegan Vazquez, CNN, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Common themes included criticizing China for its internment of Muslim Uygghurs and Iran for its human rights record.
    — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 24 Aug. 2022

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