internment

[ UK /ɪntˈɜːnmənt/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtɝnmənt/ ]
NOUN
  1. the act of confining someone in a prison (or as if in a prison)
  2. confinement during wartime
  3. placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law
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How To Use internment In A Sentence

  • In a small booklet entitled Buchenwald: A Tour of the Memorial Site that he wrote with his wife, archivist Sabine Stein, is a description of what came to be called Special Camp No. 2, one of several internment facilities maintained by Soviet forces in Germany during the aftermath of the war. The Lampshade
  • Many end up in internment camps in Colombia and, in fact, a number of Latin Americans were sent to the United States for internment. Book Review: The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vásquez « A Progressive on the Prairie
  • He is devoted to its studies before his internment.
  • Concentration camps, gulags, internment camps… It seems like the WWII era was all about camps.
  • Viko's career at Bain was plagued with problems from the get-go, when he started his internment there on the wrong foot by immediately mounting an unsuccessful and confusing-to-others campaign to change the corporation name from "Bain & Co." to "Jain & Co. Case History #1 from The Karmic Adjustment Bureau files:
  • He and his father support each other throughout their internment.
  • They are being held in internment centers in the country's lawless tribal belt.
  • I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
  • They called for the return of internment without trial for terrorists.
  • One of the few remaining structures from the camp was the concrete stockade, a jail within an internment camp.
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