List of antonyms from "destroyed" to antonyms from "determination"


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Definition of the day : « detained »

  • verb hold, keep back; arrest
Example sentences :
  • Monday evening came and went, and still she had been detained from any effort.
  • Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden
  • If he had known I would be detained I don't believe he would have asked it of me.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • Had his followers dared, they would have detained him by force.
  • Extract from : « Tanglewood Tales » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Roland was lingering unwillingly, detained by Burnham's imperative hand.
  • Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
  • Master Gryphus was detained in bed by the fever caused by the fracture of his arm.
  • Extract from : « The Black Tulip » by Alexandre Dumas (Pere)
  • When we got back to the house Harry detained me on the veranda alone.
  • Extract from : « The Cavalier » by George Washington Cable
  • I am detained in town by provoking, tiresome, but necessary business.
  • Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 8 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
  • Had Mr. Dunbar detained her at Maudesley Abbey against her will?
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • I said that he might be ill, or that important letters in that day's post might have detained him.
  • Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
  • The storm overtook us while in the grotto and detained us half an hour longer.
  • Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov