"detain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He was again detained on 8 June 1987 for political activities.
- Do you know how long we could detain them on the evidence we've got?
- In September 2008, he himself was detained on charges of being a member.
- No Americans are known to have been detained on criminal charges recently.
- Today, some 97 people, including 11 police officers, are being detained on charges that they took part in the attack.
- She was detained on May 27 and has been placed under house arrest.
- Liu was detained on June 25, 2008 at his school.
- Four other village representatives were also detained on 9 December 2011.
- Several were detained on 16 January 2012, only to be released by police five days later in response to public anger.
- He was detained on a public road against his will at gunpoint until military police and the local press arrived.
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