Synonym: custody, detainment, hold. Similar words: pretentious, pretentiousness, intention, attention, abstention, distention, contention, pay attention. Meaning: [dɪ'tenʃn] 
n. 1. a state of being confined (usually for a short time) 2. a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home.
n. 1. a state of being confined (usually for a short time) 2. a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home. 
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1. He was kept in detention by the police.
2. Willis was held in detention for five years.
3. Arbitrary arrests and detention without trial were common.
4. He described the detention without trial of political opponents as a cowardly act.
5. A public outcry secured her release from detention.
6. The detention raised two distinct but closely linked questions.
7. He was held in detention from 1991 to 2001.
8. 147 of the illegal immigrants remain in detention.
9. The prisoners were discharged from the detention camp.
10. The teacher kept the boys in detention after school.
11. He made the confession while under detention.
12. They can't give me detention for this.
13. The judge will fix the period of detention.
14. Jails and temporary detention camps are overflowing.
15. He was held in detention from 1991 to 2009.
16. She was always getting put in detention .
17. He was shipped off to a juvenile detention center.
18. She spent 18 years in detention.
19. Reports of torture and mass executions in Serbia's detention camps have outraged the world's religious leaders.
20. They were sentenced to 12 months' detention in a young offender institution.
21. The pilot is serving 22 days detention for going AWOL.
22. Concern has been expressed about the death in detention of a number of political prisoners.
23. Current legislation provides for the detention of those suspected of terrorism.
24. She's claiming that her detention by the police was a violation of her human rights.
25. He has clearly not been chastened by his thirteen days in detention.
26. Opponents of the regime had been subject to arbitrary detention[http://Sentencedict.com], torture and execution.
27. The government is devising a plan to liberate prisoners held in detention camps.
28. He said that he was not tortured or maltreated during his detention.
29. If found guilty of smuggling drugs, she could face indefinite detention.
30. He claimed to have been violently assaulted while in detention.
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