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internee

[ UK /ɪntˈɜːniː/ ]
[ US /ˌɪntɝˈni/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who is interned
    the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists

How To Use internee In A Sentence

  • And military intelligence probably did ‘request’ that internees be softened up a bit to aid interrogations.
  • the internees were enemy aliens and suspected terrorists
  • The internees had done nothing wrong, but many felt shamed by being singled out, locked away, accused of disloyalty; to criticize the government might seem to prove they were in some way guilty.
  • One night, while I was in the Black Bull pub in the Markets district talking to Official republicans, news came that seven internees had escaped from a prison ship in Belfast harbour.
  • This brought more Poles into the Soviet orbit including civilian refugees, military internees, and pre-war Polish residents of Lithuania.
  • Sponsored by a group of former German American and Latin American internees and their families, the German American Internee Coalition web site (www. gaic.info) has a wealth of information. Is That Legal?: Congress Should Look Into German-American Internment During WWII
  • Since Switzerland was a nonbelligerent, the airmen were not considered either prisoners of war or evaders; having entered the country armed and willingly, they were classified as internees. Masters of the Air
  • The condition is unfair and discriminates against civilians, as it does not apply to military internees.
  • Compiled chiefly from interviews with former internees and their kin, it concentrates on five detainees of very different backgrounds, but alike in their appalling victimization.
  • He claimed that his classes were the reason that none of the internees in his block suffered from the flu epidemic of 1918!
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