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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

How To Use internment In A Sentence

  • He asked to go back to internment camp instead of prison. Times, Sunday Times
  • Several have been carried out under the government's recently enacted internment legislation, which was rushed through parliament with minimum debate.
  • I repeat what I have said before: internment has been retained on the statute book.
  • The third week into Mikel's internment in the Defender camp, Mahina sent him to find Tarja. TREASON KEEP
  • There are plenty of practical ideas, all curtailments of our liberty, which might indeed now need to be introduced - such as greater powers for the police to arrest suspects for questioning, deportations and possibly internment.
  • After all this is a troll, a cowardly troll, he probably agrees with putting Japanese/Americans in internment camps. Think Progress » Obama: Gitmo Has ‘Been Subject To A Lot Of…Pretty Rank Politics’
  • They didn't tell you about the whole smallpox in the blankets and forced march to internment and despoilation of the forests part of that new arrangement, did they? The Sacred Domain
  • He asked to go back to internment camp instead of prison. Times, Sunday Times
  • Her mom's father was a U.S. Navy officer on a destroyer en route to invade Kyushu; her father's dad was a nisei returned to Japan to avoid a U.S. internment camp, an engineer working in a factory near Hiroshima at the time of the fatal drop.
  • In the ritual of internment, the slab is rolled back from the sepulchre and the coffin is lowered down to the chamber below.
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