Below you will find example sentences with "detention centre". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Detention Centre in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: detention
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 24.4 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "detention centre" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 24.4 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as a government detention centre after being, a juvenile detention centre until his, court, island and youth stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with detention center, county detention, shopping centre, detention center, county detention and detention facility, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with detention centre
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
This is the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in Ottawa. (9 words)
It closed in 2014 with the opening of the South West Detention Centre. (13 words)
Mr Moussa was tracked down to the only detention centre in the main city, Mamoudzou. (15 words)
The Immigration Department only released D and her three children on November 3, 2022 after detaining them for over four months at the detention centre, as the High Court in Kuala Lumpur had ordered their release from their unlawful detention. (40 words)
Both McCurrie and McIntyre were sent to Long Kesh Detention Centre, on the site of a World War II British Air Force camp 10 miles outside Belfast, which would go on to gain worldwide notoriety as the Maze Prison. (39 words)
A former youth detention centre on George Street will open by the end of the month to serve as a respite centre and replace the capacity lost when Moss Park Armoury closes. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
Detention centre main The ICC's detention centre accommodates both those convicted by the court and serving sentences as well as those suspects detained pending the outcome of their trial.
The Immigration Department only released D and her three children on November 3, 2022 after detaining them for over four months at the detention centre, as the High Court in Kuala Lumpur had ordered their release from their unlawful detention.
Mr Paheer arrived in Australia in November 2009, spent two years in Christmas Island Detention Centre and was released into community detention in Apollo Bay before receiving permanent resident status.
A former youth detention centre on George Street will open by the end of the month to serve as a respite centre and replace the capacity lost when Moss Park Armoury closes.
Both McCurrie and McIntyre were sent to Long Kesh Detention Centre, on the site of a World War II British Air Force camp 10 miles outside Belfast, which would go on to gain worldwide notoriety as the Maze Prison.
By mid-last year about one in five roles at Queensland’s Cleveland youth detention centre were vacant.
Despite concerns, a new pre-removal detention centre is set to open on the island of Samos, inside an existing closed reception facility.
Inmates at a Halifax-area jail say their rights have been violated by months-long rolling lockdowns, as correctional officers refuse work because of dangerous conditions in the provincial detention centre.
It closed in 2014 with the opening of the South West Detention Centre.
Karim’s father accompanied the child to the detention centre in the Beit El settlement, north of Ramallah, hoping to bring him back with him after a brief interrogation.
London will help pay for the deployment of hundreds of extra French law enforcement officers along its northern coast and for a detention centre there to cope with the number of migrants.
Mr Moussa was tracked down to the only detention centre in the main city, Mamoudzou.
The Cuatro Alamos clandestine detention centre was run by during Pinochet’s dictatorship that ruled the country between 1973 and 1990.
Their enthralling second, (Tinder, May), is about the enigmatic Yahya Bas, sitting mute in a government detention centre after being captured in Syria.
The younger member of the group will be held in a juvenile detention centre until his court hearing in February.
This is the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre in Ottawa.
If left out of the NRC, the Foreigners Tribunals are empowered to deprive individuals of their citizenship and send them to a detention centre.
Located in Florida, US, it was originally a youth detention centre for 18 to 21-year-olds.
The men have since been flown to an offshore detention centre on the Pacific island of Nauru.
The pair will speak to incarcerated youths at the Kariong juvenile detention centre on Wednesday about "the effects of your behaviour on your future".