Detaining is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETAINING in dictionary:

VERB:
• DETAIN, to hold in custody
• keep (someone) from proceeding by holding them back or making claims on their attention
• keep (someone) in official custody, typically for questioning about a crime or in a politically sensitive situation
• officially seize and hold (goods)

Words related to DETAINING

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How to use DETAINING in a sentence

• She stopped quite still again, as if seized suddenly by a detaining hand.
• She would have passed out instantly, but Avery paused, detaining her.
• You will forgive me for detaining you with this, but it is an actual and pressing point.
• He would join it just as soon as he could finish certain affairs that were detaining him in Naples.
• She started to reply, but he lifted a detaining finger.
• So that love is sometimes the detaining force which keeps the girl in the country.
• There was not the slightest reason for detaining me in custody.
• And you are right in detaining him here, although the physician says he could travel now.
• I was so late in returning from the meetings at Oahe, though I hurried as fast as possible, that the river was frozen, detaining us nearly three weeks.
• There were shouts, blows, a clutching and a throwing off, a detaining and repelling.
• She advanced desperately, with the deliberate intention of detaining him by speaking again.
• Whaley had no longer any pretence for detaining him.
• This noble found in the laird of Glenfernie a chance-met gentleman worth cultivating and detaining at his side as long as might be.
• A third wished to resist, without suspecting the danger that he incurred by each moment of delay, and without thinking of the peril to which he exposed Oswald in detaining him.
• Bourchier, who admitted that he saw no reason for detaining the lad.
• Almost at once her hands were torn and bleeding and she thought gratefully for the first time of her buckskin trousers which valiantly resisted all detaining thorns.
• And therefore I think that we should consider whether we may not be detaining some part of the company when they are wanting to do something else.
• Even Philip consented to deliver them up until the English should see no further cause for detaining them.
• At the foot, a constable held out his arm, detaining him.
• As I struggled with it I had a sense of pulling against a detaining hand that strove to hide a mystery, something fearful, from my eye.
• All this gathering is detaining him at home, and he is tormented by the desire for drink.
• It was with other ideas than defeating a rear-guard or detaining Banks that he seized the Kernstown ridge.
• They no doubt have their reasons, or ought to have, for detaining them.
• Three times we attempted to pass before we really comprehended the fact that that infamous woman was deliberately detaining and annoying us.
• But as fast as I tried to go, I met an interruption on the way up Providence Road, that was agreeable although detaining from duty.
• He was purposely detaining her, but whether from a wish to amuse himself or to mark his indifference to what went on around him she did not fathom.
• For long hours, detaining my hand, would she pour out before me the overflowing of a heart whose more than passionate devotion amounted to idolatry.
• There was no pretext for detaining him, and he was set at liberty.
• After I had dispatched Paowang, I returned to Wha-a-gou and his friends, who were still for detaining me.
• There would be riot in staid Appleboro if one were so foolish as to lay a detaining hand upon John Flint this day.
• For his own part, he had carefully considered the law and evidence, and could not find the shadow of a pretext for detaining the prisoner.

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