house of detention
Example Sentences
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After the attack, the Libyans turned Al Kabir into a kind of house of detention for foreign journalists, who were allowed out only for chaperoned tours.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Lieutenant Szipzr," said the court, "impaired the reputation of the country's first house of detention by being responsible for the bad spirit which prevailed in the prison for a certain period."
From Time Magazine Archive
The party's secretary general, mouthy Eugene Dennis, was unavoidably detained�by the bars of Manhattan's federal house of detention, where he is serving a year for contempt of Congress.
From Time Magazine Archive
The waste ground, amid which the old convent which served for a house of detention was built, was traversed by them in all directions, for they had come to study it with the utmost care.
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules
The large house of detention by St. Andrea delle Frate was already full, but the people continued to hold out.
From The Eternal City by Caine, Hall, Sir
