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How to use detain in a sentence

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The police will be given extra powers to detain those suspected of extraditable offences.
He denied all knowledge of the bank robbery, but police were able to detain him on a technicality.
A 19-year-old who escaped police still wearing the handcuffs used to detain him has been brought to justice.
A judge has given the okay for police to detain the bombing suspect for another three days.
His native area seems determined to detain foreign tourists by printing road signs in Irish only.
As a private security guard, he had no authority to arrest or detain the pair.
Likewise, state police are not permitted to arrest or detain solely for the purpose of asking questions.
In the later years, major state intelligence agencies had their safe houses to detain and question Tiger guerrilla suspects.
We are a civilian organisation and our officers have no executive powers, such as the authority to detain or arrest people.
In this legislation the Customs Service is looking to have increased powers to detain people at remote locations.
Can the Commonwealth detain bankrupts for the purpose of examining them, on the basis that some bankrupts are likely to flee before examination?
The group scattered when police arrived, but police were able to detain 3 Thai men and 4 Russians.
So mental health professionals will be under pressure to practise defensively and, if in doubt, to detain.
I have calls to make, and do not wish to detain you for longer than is needful.
Once a power to detain is held to depend on precedent fact, then of course anyone subjected to it can properly invoke habeas corpus.
Why would the French detain him and investigate him under these very strict terrorist laws?
But the military can detain lawful combatants, if it chooses, without charging them with any offense.
The reference to detention appear to show that the Customs had a right to detain goods at any rate if their true value had not been declared.
Indeed, that judge may be inclined to put pressure on a suspect by deciding to detain him in police custody for the purpose of questioning.
The Terrorism Act extended the powers of the police to investigate, arrest and detain.
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Examples from Classical Literature
If you, Mr. Temple, can contrive to pass this week at Mr. Percy's, let me not detain you.
But Heine did not think strictly, and his critical theory of life need not detain us.
The work he did in quiet at Urbana, and it might detain him several months.
There are sometimes other complications in the ramification of the tube, but these need not detain us.
As everything was right, the ship did not detain us, and we were permitted to proceed.
He has, for this reason, resolved to detain you in it, as a hostage for them.
Further discussion on the inadequacy of the volumetric theory need not detain us.
I will not detain you longer with an account of our progress towards the Volga.
He was evidently anxious to find himself a free agent, and this time even the alabamian did not seek to detain him.
To stand up would show, he thought, that he was not inhospitably eager to detain the parting guest.
I was in the act of following him into the room, when Reuben plucked at my sleeve to detain me.
What he had to say therefore on the subject would not detain them long.
Let not the love of your transalpine dominions detain you longer.
I'm sure I should rather have wondered what could detain him at Burleigh.
The history of Caerphilly in the Middle Ages need not detain us long.
Then she withdrew her arms, and this time he did not try to detain her.
The specification of the allotments need not detain us long.
She waved a dissenting hand, and went on, paying no further heed to their renewed cries which sought to detain her.
Do you not think, vicomte, that it were better to detain him?
Say but one affectionate word to me, and tell me there is nothing angry or estranged between us, and I will detain you no longer.
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