"detain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

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detain + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 21
detain people • detain suspects • detain citizens • detain immigrants • detain prisoners • ...
(2) prisoner, terrorist
Kolokacji: 2
1. detain prisoners = zatrzymaj więźniów detain prisoners
  • The area was also used to detain Italian and German prisoners of war in 1944 and 1945.
  • Obama refused to sign the bill with the part allowing the military to detain prisoners indefinitely.
  • The prison was used to detain political prisoners until 1988 when it was closed.
  • Despite this obvious limitation in a system of criminal justice, improvised solutions were found to detain prisoners.
  • It was used by the Stalinist Soviet occupying forces to detain political prisoners.
  • U.S. officials investigated the hospital and found no evidence that it was being used for organ harvesting or detaining prisoners.
  • If interrogation is the point of detaining prisoners indefinitely, then physical coercion, humiliation and torture become inevitable.
  • The base contains a complex prison, which he uses to temporarily detain prisoners.
  • The main function of the camps was to detain Republican prisoners of war.
  • New York City was a major site of occupation, where sugar houses were used to detain prisoners.
2. detain terrorists = zatrzymaj terrorystów detain terrorists
(3) dozens, score
Kolokacji: 2
detain + preposición
Kolokacji: 23
detained without • detained for • detained at • detained in • detained on • ...
detain + adjetivo/adverbio
Kolokacji: 19
briefly detained • detained indefinitely • illegally detained • temporarily detained • forcibly detained • ...

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