Detention is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DETENTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of detaining
• the action of detaining someone or the state of being detained in official custody
• the punishment of being kept in school after hours
• The act of detaining or keeping back; a withholding.
• The state of being detained (stopped or hindered); delay from necessity.
• Confinement; restraint; custody.
• a state of being confined (usually for a short time)
• a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home
• imprisonment
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or fact of detaining or holding back; a holding in custody

Words related to DETENTION

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Words that contain DETENTION

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How to use DETENTION in a sentence

• Leaving Mount Pleasant behind us, we entered that dingy labyrinth of streets lying on the other side of the Clerkenwell House of Detention.
• Grey protests against detention of English ships at Hamburg.
• It is this power of detention to which I would call particular notice, because a valuable practical lesson may be learned through a proper estimate of it.
• Woods he had not seen, nor did he know anything of his arrest or detention.
• My only external resource is conversing with our fellow-prisoners, and learning the causes of their detention.
• If I was wronged in the detention, the law presumed suitable damages.
• This was totally superfluous for the purpose of my detention, since there was a sentinel planted on the outside.
• She was told, with many bows and apologies, that her regretted but unavoidable detention was at an end.
• Superintendent Arnett of the Detention Home was as proud of the boy as though he were his own.
• To satisfy the man that the vessel had not sailed during his absence he took him down to the wharf, and, after explaining to the captain the cause of his detention, Mr.
• Fremont waiting to receive them, Lancy having informed her by telegraph of their detention.
• We have seen the Grand Juge, and your detention arises from a mistake.
• On a recent holiday, April 30 last, 835,720 passengers were carried upon the entire system without noticeable detention or accident.
• Gorges, Mason, and the rest renewed the attack, and in February, 1634, an order was obtained from the Privy Council for the detention of ten vessels bound for Massachusetts.
• It is certain that the detention was prolonged, and that John, in his prison, preserved an extended influence.
• If I change back to my own clothes, I shall be safe from anything worse than detention.
• However, this detention gave her an opportunity of meeting the Baptist General Convention which held its session there at that time.
• I hope you will see, therefore, that an application from me as to the damages for detention, would be improper.
• On the contrary, her detention of our posts, seems to be the speck which is to produce a storm.
• All my old Majorcan friends had abandoned me at the moment of my detention.
• He and I were allowed more liberty than the other captives, and apart from the detention had little to complain of.
• THE TIME TRADERS CHAPTER 1 To anyone who glanced casually inside the detention room the young man sitting there did not seem very formidable.
• They know that it will be impossible to convict them, and they prefer a slight detention to the consequences of a struggle with their captors.
• By this detention they were often brought into the company of good people, whose kindness gained their confidence.
• This was our only course if we would avoid detention.
• When the detention camp and hospital at San Lazaro threatened to become crowded, a second camp and hospital were established at Santa Mesa.
• This detention was very vexatious, for we were not only losing a fair wind, but lying in a very exposed situation.
• In 1775, when it was reported in Charlotte that two Tory lawyers, Dunn and Boothe, had proposed the detention of Capt.
• The necessity for military arrests and for indefinite detention of the arrested persons was undeniable.
• Detention at Honolulu shortened my stay in Manila, but there was much in studies at the former place that was a help at the latter.
• Franz Mehring that it is better that he should be under detention than that he should be at large and do something for which he would have to be punished.
• Some of the buildings claimed their attention, as, for instance, the House of Detention, in the Rue-Sainte-Therese near the Palais de Justice.
• The Count had frequently pointed out the folly of his detention, and begged Lord Charles to allow them to take their passage in a small brig of 200 tons that was bound to Europe.

Similar words containing TEN without suffix tion and without prefix de

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