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de·tained

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How to use detained in a sentence?

  1. State Department:

    We are aware of reports of a U.S. citizen detained in Burma, we take seriously our responsibility to assist U.S. citizens abroad and are monitoring the situation. Due to privacy considerations, we have no further comment.

  2. Nikita Telizhenko:

    The most brutal beatings were happening all around : hits, screams, cries and shrieks coming from everywhere, i felt that some of the detained had broken bones -- hands, legs, spines -- because with the tiniest bit of movement they wailed in pain.

  3. Hameed Khan:

    They were detained by the Taliban.

  4. William Schaffner:

    The facilities in which they're detained could not be better designed for the spread of influenza.

  5. Fethullah Gulen:

    There is the FETO terrorist organization and the leader is in Jerusalem US since 1999, and he's being harbored there. And he's not a convict. He's not even being detained. And we demand his extradition, and he's not being extradited to us.


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