How to Use detainee in a Sentence

detainee

noun
Definition of detaineenext
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  • Last month the court heard a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee.
    — The Associated. Press, Arkansas Online, 9 Nov. 2021
  • In the months that followed, the detainee population dropped to the lowest levels in more than a decade.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2021
  • This is the first time a detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison has won a habeas petition in ten years, Plochocki said.
    — Ellie Kaufman, CNN, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Last month the court heard a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee that also involved the states secrets privilege.
    — Jessica Gresko, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Many of the detainee complaints were substantiated in ICE’s own inspection of the jail this year.
    — Deepa Fernandes, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2021
  • Handcuffed and in an orange detainee shirt, the preacher was almost unrecognizable underneath a bulletproof helmet and vest.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 13 Sep. 2024
  • Congress thwarted that effort by forbidding the transfer of any detainee from Guantánamo to the United States for any reason.
    — New York Times, 13 Oct. 2021
  • There have long been calls for reforms at the facility, and the surprise inspection was sparked by allegations of mistreatment made by a detainee charged in the Capitol riot.
    — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 2 Nov. 2021
  • 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
  • The newest detainee arrived in 2008; some of the men have been held for two decades.
    — Jess Bravin, WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
  • 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
  • In Toga prison, guards beat and then shot two Tigrayan soldiers on Nov. 4, a detainee there said.
    — Katharine Houreld, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
  • And all these testimonies are coming out about the abuse of detainees.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • In the video, the detainee appears to be handcuffed in the back of a police car, wearing a hospital gown.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 13 Aug. 2024
  • 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
  • One other detainee was being held at the barracks at the time of the man’s death, Procopio said.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 7 May 2022
  • Last month, a Central Booking detainee was found dead and his death was ruled a homicide.
    — Lea Skene, Baltimore Sun, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Neighboring rooms would be used to handle detainees, while the hotel’s kitchen was placed on call to begin producing meals for the prisoners.
    — Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024

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