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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121. The Home Office knows the whereabouts only of those few applicants housed in a special detention centre.
122. Mrs Davis was released from detention yesterday and all charges have been dropped.
123. Often we can secure the release of refugees from detention if we can find them somewhere to live.
124. Lines scoured on flesh in the penal settlement, or detention beyond the Styx.
125. They want to prevent the opening of a new detention centre at Campsfield House in Kidlington.
126. Patients could be admitted for care and treatment without any formalities and without liability to detention.
127. Local detention is considerably cheaper, although the state might still chip in with a subsidy.
128. Deaths in detention are not phenomena of the distant past: last year two people were reported as having died in custody.
128. Sentencedict.com is a online sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
129. The biological positivists could only propose indeterminate detention or extinction for such categories of offender.
130. There was another riot at the men's detention center yesterday.
131. The main detention center was designed to hold 150 people, but sometimes houses 600.
132. By the 1920s the average period of detention for new immigrants lasted two weeks.
133. He was described as neither fit for questioning nor detention, but remains under house arrest.
134. He was sentenced to another month in prison to run consecutive to his current term of detention.
135. There's no time limit on detention under the immigration act.
136. Campsfield will house 200 people making it the biggest detention centre for immigrants in the country.
137. During 1975 and 1976 the detention centres would often get crowded.
138. Then he was chosen, with another senior officer[Sentencedict.com], to run the Athi River Detention Camp.
139. Police take violators to a special detention center and telephone their homes.
140. The latest wave of repression began after Ali Akbar SaidiSirjani died in detention under mysterious circumstances in the end of 1994.
141. The new government banned books, seized passports, expelled foreigners, and legalized detention without trial.
142. Detained Numbers of refugees seeking asylum in the United Kingdom are held in detention for long periods following their arrival.
143. International appeals can help to secure the release of these prisoners or to improve their detention conditions.
144. Medina remains in federal detention in New York, while his attorney tries to arrange his bond.
145. Many are held for months or years in administrative or pretrial detention, usually incommunicado.
146. So they put me in a detention centre for six months.
147. They were put into detention camps for the duration.
148. The detention centers came under criticism from penal reformers.
149. On condition of value transformation from "formal Rule of Law" to "Substantive Rule of Law", we should reconstitute the system of administrative detention in four elements.
150. The detention time in the tank is between 1.5 and 3 hours.
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