On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Detainee. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as prisoner or captive and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Detainee meaning
Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.
Using Detainee
- The main meaning on this page is: Someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement.
- Useful related words include: political detainee, prisoner, captive.
- In the example corpus, detainee often appears in combinations such as: the detainee, one detainee, detainee was.
Context around Detainee
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 7 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Detainee
- In this selection, "detainee" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, former, palestinian, immigration, owns, mansoor and profile stand out and add context to how "detainee" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a former detainee asserts this and a palestinian detainee be placed. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "detainee" sits close to words such as abrogation, agnew and airman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with detainee
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
National Security Act (NSA) detainee Kulwant Singh Rauke. (8 words)
According to the police, the detainee owns a water store. (10 words)
The detainee has been placed in a temporary detention facility. (10 words)
In a video posted on 24 December 2023 by an IDF soldier, a Palestinian detainee is shown stripped and bleeding with his hands bound and sitting on a chair while being interrogated before being marched through the streets of Gaza barefoot. (41 words)
Israel’s restrictive measures compound the woes of prisoners made to suffer through yearly heatwaves in prisons located in the desert or near hot, humid valleys that make life unbearable, the 51-year-old former detainee told Middle East Eye. (40 words)
In 1998, his younger brother, Mohammed, recruited him to travel to Afghanistan to attend the Khaldan camp for base weapons training, according to his US government detainee profile, but Abdul was kicked out of the camp for smoking. (38 words)
It now appears acceptable that a detainee can be refused mental health medication from a decision made by a custodial officer – how does this happen? (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to the police, the detainee owns a water store.
A sixth former immigration detainee has been arrested and charged in Melbourne after an alleged breach of visa conditions that impose a curfew.
A third former detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, author of Don't Forget Us Here, had been transferred from Gitmo to Serbia in 2016.
In 1998, his younger brother, Mohammed, recruited him to travel to Afghanistan to attend the Khaldan camp for base weapons training, according to his US government detainee profile, but Abdul was kicked out of the camp for smoking.
Israel’s restrictive measures compound the woes of prisoners made to suffer through yearly heatwaves in prisons located in the desert or near hot, humid valleys that make life unbearable, the 51-year-old former detainee told Middle East Eye.
One day, a detainee from a rival gang came to my cell and asked me about my homework assignments.
One detainee was not told he had a brain cyst for two weeks – then his lawyer found it in his paperwork, the complaint says.
On Sky News, the Coalition’s was asked to back up the claim that the high court ruling on indefinite detention required the release of only one detainee.
The average detainee is held for and there are currently 124 people who have been detained for more than five years.
The detainee has been placed in a temporary detention facility.
The Metropolitan Police has just settled the civil claims brought by Stevenson and fellow detainee Dania Al-Obeid, by paying them damages and issuing an apology.
The news that two students had earned their certificates while in prison spread quickly among all the prisoners, their families and organizations that champion detainee rights.
A decision by federal prosecutors not to oppose bail for a released detainee before an alleged assault was not common sense, Anthony Albanese says.
A federal grand jury indicted two Passaic County correctional officers on Monday for allegedly violating a detainee’s civil rights.
However, a former detainee asserts this is a fate worse than death.
In a video posted on 24 December 2023 by an IDF soldier, a Palestinian detainee is shown stripped and bleeding with his hands bound and sitting on a chair while being interrogated before being marched through the streets of Gaza barefoot.
It now appears acceptable that a detainee can be refused mental health medication from a decision made by a custodial officer – how does this happen?
National Security Act (NSA) detainee Kulwant Singh Rauke.
No suicides have been reported for 2023, but earlier this year, a man hanged himself while another detainee tried to alert jail guards but couldn’t get their attention.
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said prosecutors have requested that soldiers accused of abusing a Palestinian detainee be placed under house arrest.
Common combinations with detainee
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the detainee 20×
- one detainee 5×
- detainee was 5×
- another detainee 5×
- detainee who 5×
- former detainee 4×
- detainee at 4×
- detainee has 3×
- detainee is 3×
- detainee in 3×