detain a prisoner

Frequency: 5.02.2 per million words

To keep someone in custody, often before they are charged with a crime.

prisonerVERB + NOUN

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detain

Examples (10)

  • The police decided to detain the suspected prisoner for further questioning.
  • Under international law, authorities can detain a prisoner of war.
  • They had to detain several prisoners after the riot broke out.
  • The guards were instructed to detain any prisoner attempting to escape.
  • Why did they choose to detain that particular prisoner without a formal charge?
  • The court ordered them to detain the prisoner until the trial could commence.
  • We cannot legally detain a prisoner indefinitely without proper judicial review.
  • The military may detain enemy prisoners for intelligence gathering purposes.
  • Having been caught attempting to flee, the officer had to detain the prisoner immediately.
  • The new facility was designed to detain high-risk prisoners securely.