"detain" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The police said on Saturday that they had detained about 85 people and released nearly 50.
- Solidarity organizers in the city said the police had detained about 10 people.
- She had been detained for about a month at Makassar.
- Under this program, suspected terrorists have been detained and questioned about threats against our country.
- Of those detained, about 88 percent were found to be truants.
- He was detained and questioned about the reporting, which appeared on Tuesday, newspaper editors said.
- He Peirong was detained for about one week prior to being released.
- Some workers, he noted, had only been detained for interrogation, particularly about leaders of the union, and then released.
- The police blocked it and detained about 30 people, who were later released.
- Since the Sept. 11 attacks, the government is believed to have detained about two dozen people under the material-witness law.
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