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Detain Pronunciation

Pronounce Detain as D EH T AH IY N.

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    Detain phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'detain'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of detain: /dɛtæɪn/
    • Modern IPA representation of detain: /dɛtæɪn/

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    List of meaning for detain

    to keep (hold) someone and delay them from leaving a particular place

    confine, detain(verb)

    deprive of freedom; take into confinement

    stay, detain, delay(verb)

    stop or halt

    "Please stay the bloodshed!"

    delay, detain, hold up(verb)

    cause to be slowed down or delayed

    "Traffic was delayed by the bad weather"; "she delayed the work that she didn't want to perform"

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    detain in sentence

    1. If you resist arrest, the police can use force to detain you.

    2. Officers didn’t have enough evidence to detain their suspect, so they had to let him go free.

    3. At the country’s border, patrol units decided to detain a vehicle and question the people inside.

    4. The Nazi police force was not regulated and the German Gestapo were allowed to detain and arrest people as they saw fit.

    5. Brave citizens were able to detain the thief long enough for the police to arrive and cart him off to jail.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term detain

    [it’s] decided to detain them and deport them. we're fixing the policy. People will still get due process.

    – Thomas Homan

    The Mexican governments decision to detain as many migrants as possible, after President Trump put pressure on them to do so, has made it clear just how many third-country nationals from outside Central America are actually in the country.

    – Andrew Selee

    People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom.

    – Peter Ustinov

    We cannot allow racist and armed vigilantes to kidnap and detain people seeking asylum, we urge you to immediately investigate this atrocious and unlawful conduct.

    – The ACLU

    This is narrower than I anticipated, politically, this allows the administration to assert that it wants to detain families indefinitely -- but a court won't let them do it.

    – Cornell Law

    We need Congress to fully fund our ability to hold families together through the immigration process. And until these loopholes are closed by Congress, it is not possible as a matter of law to detain and remove whole family units who arrive illegally in the United States.

    – Kirstjen Nielsen

    Today, legal loopholes significantly hinder the Department's ability to appropriately detain and promptly remove family units that have no legal basis to remain in the country, this rule addresses one of the primary pull factors for illegal immigration and allows the federal government to enforce immigration laws as passed by Congress.

    – Kirstjen Nielsen

    If ICE does not provide the proper legal instrument, they are jeopardizing also the city’s ability to detain somebody against their will.

    – San Francisco

    Let's be crystal clear on the scope of this mission, this will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws.

    – Jerry Brown

    Our federal prisons are set up to detain the worst of the worst. They should not be used for immigration purposes, federal prisons are for hardened criminals. They are not physically set up for immigrant landscapers looking for a job or fleeing violence.

    – Ali Noorani

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